This one started out strong and just kind of lost steam for me. Informative, excellent images, but I probably would have broken up the chapters differently.
I need more words for a Cannonball Read review, you say? Oh. I’ll keep going then.
Material culture history is a fascinating way to unpack a time period and really get a feel for what life was really like and the complicated web that leads to our recorded history, and not what nonsense humans want you to think it was like (yeah, as a museum professional I’m having feelings about the Executive Order going after the Smithsonian and National Parks Service to replace the actual work of history with propaganda narratives). 
Ahem.
So. As I was saying. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close called out to me because pockets in historic clothing, especially clothing intended for women, is an interesting thing. I knew some, and I would like to know more. This first third to half of this book was engaging to me and confirmed some things I knew and gave me additional information. All good. But Somewhere around the middle the way Hannah Carlson chose to divide the chapters felt off to me and started losing my interest. Carlson is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and I could tell how some of her units of study fed the way she built her chapters, but it didn’t grab my attention in the written form the way I’m sure it does in person.
But this book is worth it to dip a toe in and check out some amazing archival graphics.