Pockets in apparels are sensitive to fashion changes and provide a multitude of social and cultural data, despite their apparent anonymity and utilitarian character. Pockets are an alternative to luggage, purses, and pouches for carrying and securing personal belongings. There is also a thorough gender-specific relationship between pockets and the bodily gestures and postures they permit. Although traditionally pockets are integral part of men’s attire. Women's pants began to be completely devoid of pockets as fashion became fascinated with shrinking women's shapes.

With changing roles of women over the decades, they have experienced challenges in their everyday chores due to shortage of pockets. Lately, this problem is being gradually identified by the designers and pockets are making a comeback in women's apparel, although they're usually very small or sometimes even fake. The study is based on developing innovative pockets and evaluating the problems faced by women in their workwear clothing due to lack of appropriate pockets. The researcher reviewed the history of pockets and tried to analyse different types of pockets on various categories of apparel. Additionally, and anatomy of pockets in contemporary men’s and women’s wear was done in order to create the functional pockets in women’s workwear.