My hope when I joined Myitthings.com was to reach out to designers and wake them up. To show that fat girls cannot wear thin girls fashions. That they're doing themselves a grave disservace by not expanding out to create designs for all sorts of different shapes and sizes. After all, I wear clothing, I could be one of your customers, if you'd just make things appropreate for me.

But my hope is not just to change clothing by giving designers a wake up call. I'd like to change other things too. For instance, I want to change dress shoes by convincing designers that giving them arch support and soft cushioning inside is a good thing. That the trend to have them hard and completely flat inside is bad.

I'd also like to change the way purses are designed.

I'm pretty simple when it comes to purses. I only buy black purses. Black goes with everything and it doesn't show dirt. I don't have to buy special shoes to go with it. I prefer materials where if something spills on it I can just wipe it off. I don't like a lot of baubles on it and I really don't care for purses where the designer puts their name on it really big.

However, despite my simple tastes I find it impossible to find a purse anymore. For one reason - designers anymore insist on making these huge cavernous purses with no pockets!

I like a lot of pockets in my purse. A pocket for my cellphone, one for tissue packets, another for breath mints, but most of all I like zippered pockets for my wallet and my pads and panty liners. (Yes, I use pads, not tampons.) Having the wallet zippered up makes me feel more secure and I don't like my pads being out for all to see.

But the way purses are designed now adays I have to have this big, disorganized mess. I have to keep pads and pantyliners in ziplock bags. I have to buy one of those silly purse ogranizers that can barely hold my cellphone let alone anything else.

I don't see why pockets are no longer in style. I enjoy being able to have a place just for my keys. To know exactly where my nasal spray and hand sanatizer is.

Sure, I could buy one of those Buxton Bags - actually, I already do own one, but it doesn't hold as much as they claim. I can barely get my wallet in it.

Until I go through menopause I have to have a larger purse. That's all there is to it. But I should also be able to have a purse that I can yell into without hearing an echo.

A purse is not a purse without POCKETS! Lots and lots of POCKETS. Please, designers, bring back purses with pockets! Don't let my blogs here go in vain.