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Dress & Power

Clothing, adornment and the practical organisation of everyday life.

Museum photograph of a detachable historical pocketDress & Power · Free to read

A Pocket Is a Question of Access

A detachable eighteenth-century pocket complicates the story that women simply had no useful storage. Look at the opening, the tie and the route of the hand.

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