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The curious case of Percy Pig and the missing pocket

The curious case of Percy Pig and the missing pocket

Visible Women • S1, Episode 9

The curious case of Percy Pig and the missing pocket

In this episode the Visible Women team try to get to the bottom of one of the world’s most trying problems: the paucity of pockets in women’s clothes compared to men’s. Caroline speaks to a pocket historian, learns to make her own pocket, and takes on some troubling mysteries.

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