Forward-looking: So, you buy a new shirt, wear it a bunch of times until you get sick of it, and then it ends up getting tossed or relegated to the back of your closet. What if instead, you could just ...

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 ...