Now I Will Always Have Pockets!

[fauxklore]

I briefed my (government) boss this morning on a study I've had some of our engineering group experts working on. Mostly, I wanted to get his agreement that it was complete, except for some document formalization.

At a meeting shortly after that, someone was describing another organization's idea of "coordinating" a policy. "They said everyone was on board because it came up at the meeting," she said. "But it never got talked about at the meeting and it was only in the back-up charts."

"Hmm," I said. "Now I know how to achieve my plans for total world domination."

My boss replied, "I'm going to have to look very carefully at the back-up charts from that study."


(If you don't get the title of this entry, I often tell people that the first thing I'd do if I ruled the world is make it illegal to sell women's clothing without pockets.)

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

You may want to make an exception to the "pockets" rule for costuming and re-creation stuff.

However, as the person who does the laundry for both a male and a female, I'd like to request that you ALSO require women's clothing to be all be machine washable.

[fauxklore]

Costumes don't really count as clothing, in my opinion, so get an automatic exemption. Similarly, I don't count things like leotards or swimsuits.

Requiring things to be machine washable would eliminate the use of wool and I'm not about to do that. I don't particularly mind hand laundry, so I will propose that anybody who wears things that are not machine washable must wash them (or take them to the dry cleaner) themselves.

I'd also like to require the establishment of drop and collect laundries in the U.S. as i is amazingly pleasant to leave a bag of clothes in the morning and get back everything not just washed and dried but neatly folded in the evening.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Wool can be machine washable. You have to wash it in cold, and hang to dry, but I do it all the time.

[fauxklore]

I was thinking of merino knits. Even in cold water, machine washing is too likely to felt anything with a long staple length like that.

And, while it is sometimes possible to machine wash woven knits, there are issues with linings on my work suits, making dry cleaning far safer.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

But if you were dictator, you could force people to make better linings on work suits.

[fauxklore]

Actually, if I ruled the world, I could wear whatever I damn well pleased to work.

Except that I still have all these old-fashioned notions about dignity and propriety. For all that I say otherwise, I probably will still own nylons after I retire.

[cellio]

I often tell people that the first thing I'd do if I ruled the world is make it illegal to sell women's clothing without pockets.

Where do I sign up? This is a large part of why I despise formal-dress situations, including many employment situations. I don't require the ability to wear jeans to work (though every place I've been has supported that), but I do require pockets! And not just those silly little set-in-seam side pockets that can hold your keys and not much else.