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5. The curious case of Percy Pig and the missing pocket

Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez

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The Great Gender Pocket Gap

Caroline Kriyado-Perez investigates the Great Gender Pocket Gap. Men's clothes feature pockets all over the place, and women's don't. She once commissioned a survey to find out if British women do in fact want pockets. The results showed that women do - who would ever have guessed? M&S remained silent when asked why their men's and women's Percy Pig Pajama bottoms were almost identical. They tweeted back saying they couldn't add trouser pockets due to extra costs. This seems like an at-sea-criada-pearers hashtag we want pockets moments.

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