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[coraa]

I like wearing long skirts, especially around the house. Indeed, I'm making a few skirts for summer (one black, one dark green). However, most skirts don't have pockets -- and I'm not a good enough seamstress at this point to add pockets to a pattern that doesn't include them.

Plus, many women's pants patterns also don't have pockets, or they have pockets that are so small to be unusable. And most of my shirts don't have pockets either.

This isn't really a problem most of the time; it's why I carry a purse or a bag. But often, when I'm cleaning the house, I want to listen to my iPod -- or when I'm going for a walk, I want to bring my phone and my keys but not lug a bag with me. This is a problem when one is in a pocketless state, since there's noplace to put the iPod. Indeed, sometimes when housecleaning I am forced to resort to sticking my iPod through my bra strap, which is precarious and kind of uncomfortable (and unattractive, but I don't care about that if what I'm doing is scrubbing the kitchen floor).

Does anyone have an idea for how I can carry an iPod or phone-and-keys combo without pockets? I'm not going to resort to a *cringe* fanny-pack arrangement, because I am not fond of the way they look or the way they feel. My best idea so far is to copy medieval folk and make some kind of small pouch that can be hung at my hip (medieval clothes did not have internal pockets), but I was wondering if anyone had other ideas.

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[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

A fashionable small carpenter's utility belt? I could see a whole new industry built around such a thing, just for women who wear pocketless skirts....Tooled leather, with pouches in various sizes as add-ons; or tablet-woven belts, ditto. Or a decorative bandolier or sash, ditto; my lover just suggested "the eighteenth-century thing, a belt with pockets" (what I presume is not a pouch that's separable, but rather a regular pocket that's sewn on to a regular belt).

If you're up to a research project, look into historical costuming: surely all those Viking women, French housewives of the 14th century, and Italian merchants' wives of the 16th century had some way of carrying around stuff that didn't necessarily depend on skirt pockets or purses?