I can get away with wearing mens tops and shoes, but my hips are too fabulous for mens pants to look good on me. So I gotta settle for women’s pants.
So I’m currently doing field work for Ecology so I need to get PRACTICAL WORK PANTS WITH LOTS OF POCKETS.
Meanwhile women’s clothing shops are like “UwU, work clothes for women? You mean these business pants with no pockets?” There are no other kinds of workwear for women IN THE WORKWEAR SECTION.
No motherfucker I mean cargo pants with all the pockets and belt loops. I’m going out in the bush. I need pockets for extra batteries and I need belt loops to hook a satellite GPS to. Fuck.
Look at this sexist bullshit. Here is the women’s workwear section:
Here is the men’s workwear section, same store:
Apparently all women work in offices and all men work physical labour jobs and fuck you if you deviate from your assigned role in life.
FUCK GENDER ROLES AAAAA IT’S 2024 AND THEY’RE STILL DOING THE FUCKING NO POCKETS THING 
EDIT: Thank you comrades for all the suggestions on where to shop. 
Unfortunately, part of the problem is looking for workwear at Target. The women’s workwear there is for white collar or pink collar jobs, and the men’s workwear is just fake stuff that won’t hold up to a single day of outdoor work.
A better option would be a farm supply store or dedicated workwear outfitter.
I hate being poor
Honestly, proper gear at a farm supply isn’t going to be substantially higher than that of regular clothes. I find it’s often cheaper upfront to buy a set of work pants that’ll last a decade than even to buy a single set of regular pants that’ll only last a year, not even accounting for the whole Sam Vimes boot theory “lasting ten times as long” thing. Genuinely, farm supplies have cheaper jeans that last longer, and will have tool loops.
Like, you can walk into a tractor supply in the US and buy a pair of durable and long-lasting work jeans for $20-30, where a regular pair of jeans at Target will be $30-40.
Take a look at thrift shops. Dickies and Wrangler are always available. If you’re lucky you might get carhart’s (the real work wear, not the street fashion product line). They’re usually around $7 to $20, depending on the quality and whether the workers paid attention while tagging the clothes lol
If you find pants you like but think they’re too expensive, I’ll pay for a pair (through paypal transfer) No owl should have to go out there improperly attired
You are incredibly sweet for offering, but there are comrades that need your money way more than me. I’ll be fine, but I appreciate it for sure
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What do you mean by a pink collar job?
Pink collar jobs are generally service sector jobs where women have historically been overrepresented in staffing. Secretaries, teachers, florists, even retail is sometimes considered pink collar.
Honestly I have no idea what colour of collar brewing would be.
I was kind of linking it as a joke
those catholic friars are looking might suspicious now
Just as a sidebar, the reason why office work jobs have a gender-divide regarding the temperature is due to sexism.
The standard office temperature was based on what was ideal for a man like half a century ago. AMAB people tend to run a bit warmer due to metabolic reasons and men were/still are expected to wear heavier clothes that provide full coverage of their bodies. Going back to the 50s or the 70s, men overwhelmingly had the “ideal” office spots - corner and side offices often with fairly large windows so there’s more sun exposure.
Women were/often still are expected to wear lighter clothes with less coverage of their bodies—compare a typical work blouse to a typical button-up shirt—and the majority were relegated to secretarial sort of work and the office pit, where you’re probably in the centre part of the office.
So you’ve got a situation where most offices cater to the needs and circumstances of men, making the typical office temperature unreasonably cold for women.
What an awesome society! Trashing the environment just so that men can look refined and dignified while women are expected to choose between looking pretty and suffering for it, or dressing practically for their office work conditions and, naturally, suffering in other ways for that.
Of course this is not on the level of Qing Dynasty foot binding but there’s a vast, globe-spanning cultural expectation that women ought to physically suffer due to societal standards of beauty and modesty across history, and this phenomenon of the office of today being uncomfortably cold for women sits very neatly within that history.
Sorry we don’t have pants with pockets. Can I interest you in a completely transparent cotton t-shirt that will immediately disintegrate after the first wash? No? What it I told you that it was also cropped?
screams of the damned
I suggest buying owl clothes instead
Fukin’ gottem.
Meanwhile women’s clothing shops
Well there’s your problem, you need to look in a men’s wear shop, like Lowes Menswear!
(Unfortunately I’m not joking)
Oh my god lmao thank you
You may have a “work wear” store you, catering to blue collar and trades workers. They have good shit.
So this is going to sound strange but I really enjoy overalls. There is something about them that makes my hands go all flappy. You sound like you need something with utility in it. Some of the best overalls are made for workers and have a shit ton of pockets, loops, and even drop seats so you don’t have to undo the bib and have your stuff fall out!
Hell yeah I like overalls too. I might go with that. Thanks.
The video on that sales page is one of the funniest things I’ve seen all day.
It is a fun one! Its why its always in my head ready to link when I think of work related overalls.
Any luck at the farm supply store? Fleet Farm is pretty good in my area for this stuff
That men’s workwear stuff looks terrible too. What the hell are cargo jogger pants? Those things will break apart so fast in an actual blue collar or outdoor work environment. That stuff is for dudes that want to look tough while working an office job and driving a lifted pick up truck.
The women’s section from an actual workwear brand in South Africa looks pretty decent though, just very expensive, thankfully not everyone is doing this weird gender roles stuff. The women’s section of this American brand also looks decent
Baby clothes unironically have more pockets than women’s clothes
I don’t fucking get it. I have a 2yo and a 6yo and somewhere we have a pair of 6-12m pants leftover from the last clothes purge that have pockets bigger than what my pants have and I’m a dude. My 6yo has a couple pairs of sweats since he doesn’t like jeans for texture reasons but the sweats have big ass pockets, and here’s the kicker, the draw strings? Those are fake. Just stitched in to look like they are functional.
Women’s clothing tho? Absolutely atrocious execution. I don’t believe in a lot of conspiracies but the ones about fake pockets to sell more purses is one of them. There is no fucking reason why women’s pants shouldn’t have functional pockets. Fuck consumerism and fuck capitalism. Give the girls pockets!
I bought a coat for a small dog once. Nothing special, just a cheap thing to keep a little dog with a fine coat warm - not like a specialised hiking vest for a working dog or anything that you’d expect to have decent detail (or even particularly good stitching on) just the cheapest thing on the shelf.
It had two surprisingly decent, functioning pockets with no good reason to have them.
Apparently it is easier to find functioning pockets in dog apparel than it is to find them in women’s apparel.
Deeper too!
I’d say the worst part about women’s clothing is vanity sizing and one size here being a completely different size there. Fucking irritating stuff. Have to hunt down size charts every time I want to buy clothes.
You are right though. I do miss pockets as well. None of my pajama pants have them and my old ones had them
Dickies, Carhartt, or Duluth Trading my comrade.
Cargo pants all day erry day best pant only pant.
My parents used to wear army camo cargo pants in the 90s and i thought it was very cool
evolve. adapt. overcome. wear a fanny pack. it is your destiny
We just gotta get you a sewing machine. And maybe 20 yards of linen.
Frankly, there is no solution to the clothing industry that doesn’t involve bringing tailoring back. I say this from the heart as someone with odd proportions.
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EMT pants maybe? Several folks at work seem to have good luck with them
