The Pocket Universe By George Diez /
Issue 16, pp26 -31
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27 There are those who
swear that a glance at a man’s shoes can reveal his true nature; others say his hair; his watch, and especially the cut of his suit will also come under scrutiny. In the last few years, yet another opinion has not only gained traction, but begun to feign a long-term normalcy: the contents of a man’s pockets. There’s no point in an attempt to maintain a gendered bias in the discussion – keys, wallets, and phones are fundamentally unisex items, despite heavily gendered variations. Regardless, it seems that one of the fundamental tropes of the ‘carry’ culture is to exude something between utilitarian and elegantly masculine – often with the goal of eliminating the unnecessary.