Alice Loxton
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770 appearances
11 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Alice Loxton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But maybe Henry's real legacy was introducing the pocket.
Henry the Pocketful, he could be.
Henry the organized.
I mean maybe that's why he got married so many times.
Yeah.
Could carry all the stuff of his his wife.
Well, actually, yeah, so the first mention of pocket that we have a record of is in the fifteen forties in Henry VIII's wardrobe accounts, and that's the first evidence of a sewn in pocket.
Yes, well this is a good question.
So while men are wearing breeches, women are wearing dresses and they've got these corseted dresses.
Okay, so that means it's really, really tight at the bust and the waist.
and down to the hips, but at the hips it kind of flows out into this enormous skirt.
So if you can think about Judy Dench playing Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare in Love.
It's really big, kind of heavy materials.
They didn't have a sewn in pocket, which I think they they could have done.
Elizabeth I could have implemented that.
That would have been a good legacy.
Yeah.
Our story would be quite different if she had done that.
Um, but instead, they have these pouches on the inside of the skirt, which is known as the tie-on pocket.
And it is that style that stays in place until the late 1700s.
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