We trust the experts instead of random anecdotes. In this case the experts thinks that women prefer clothes without noticeable pockets, so that is what they sell.
Can you explain why you think the experts are wrong and your hunch is right?
What experts? All the women posting in this thread telling you they want bigger pockets and can't find pants they have bigger pockets?
Those are the only experts worth listening to: the actual people affected by these decisions!
Yours is precisely the same twisted illogic that prevents progress on a whole variety of economic and social issues.
As an extreme but hopefully illustrative case, consider that the people who listened to the "experts" on the topic of smoking tobacco in the first half of the 20th century had a substantially elevated probability of dying from lung cancer or heart disease.
Women doesn't have to listen to men on this, if there is massive demand then they can make a startup and get rich. Many women have already tried that, you would have to explain to me why all of those failed to give women pockets if demand for it was so massive.
It being a meme doesn't mean that women doesn't prefer the looks of small pockets. What they want is to have the looks of small pockets but still have large pockets, that is really hard to satisfy.
If the experts think that women are objects whose main purpose is to be pretty to satisfy the men's eyes, and as such, they need clothes more pretty than useful, then maybe we should not listen to them :)
No one is forcing you (or women) to listen to “them”. Women have long been leaders in the clothes design business. And if I were to guess, leaders in the business probably care more about earning more money rather than subjugating women so that they satisfy men’s eyes.
Sorry, but it's a bit naive on how fashion works. A few people decide what trend is going to be, then they have enough communication power (via media, "stars", social media, etc) to brainwash everyone into thinking they absolutely need to look like to this standard. It's key for the fashion industry to work this way, so that they can change the standard every 6 months and sell more things.
I think women are do more analysis than just buying what is being pushed via advertising.
Also, I see women (and men) wearing many different styles every day, so not sure how effective your supposed fashion cabal is. Just dropping the kids off at daycare, there must be at least 4 or 5 distinct looks just amongst the women in their 20s.
I'm sure the fashion cabal as you say is able to come with a bunch of different looks every 6 months. Of course everyone is more or less sensitive to these stuff, but overall it works extremely well (and if like me, you think "this stuff doesn't work at all in me, I don't give a shit about clothes", be sure that someone in the cabal have thought of you and decided what people who don't give a shit would wear too)
Fishing vests arent standard piece of clothing more along the lines of sporting equipment than garment. As for cargo pants generally only easy to find for one sex and often (though not always) found grouped with garments made especially for physical labour rather than casual wear like other pants like jeans or slacks. And are treated as objects of derision by those that fallow fashion.
