A Pocket Guide to Using Pockets

Morag Seaton’s A Pocket Guide to Using Pockets is an instruction manual illustrating different pocket acts and their stories. Devised in 12 steps, the guide includes everyday clothing rituals, pocket transactions and other repeated dressing habits that together paint a picture of individual characters and shared material cultures.

The pocket uniform is a collection of carefully constructed garments with multiple discreet and indiscreet pocket openings. The garments have been produced with Scottish linen, wools, factory rejects and other obsolescences. Each pocket ritual is accompanied with a story from a clothing archive, a space which encompasses hundreds of everyday conversations about clothes. These documented dialogues have been collected by speaking to and observing people, which are then played with and dissected to challenge preconceptions and reveal alternative perspectives of how clothes should be worn.