@drj If you want to know more about pockets in historical dress there is a book: The PocketA Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900 by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetauxspoiler: in those years pockets for women were quite a thing, and they were *big*. live-poultry-sized, even!(except for those few years every century or so when people forgot about having a waist and had to resort to reticules :D )