EDITOR’S NOTE: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes investigates how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. It’s a familiar exchange to many women ...

Author Hannah Carlson takes us through the history of that most essential fashion hack, pockets. If you've ever bought a dress from the women's section of a store, you might recognize this reaction ...

You might have seen a recurring conversation online. It goes like this: the woman receives a compliment on her beautiful dress. She responds, “Yes, and it has pockets!” She knows what’s important.

A reader wonders why pockets in women’s wear remain “small and useless” — when they’re included at all. The answer is tangled up with a host of social issues, our critic writes. By Vanessa Friedman ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with fashion writer Derek Guy about the dos and don'ts of an accessory Simon loves: the pocket square. I am a man who likes a pocket square, that small flourish of fabric that ...