TL;DR: You’ve focused primarily on the history, and barely touched on my actual question of ‘why isn’t anyone taking advantage of this supposed demand today in 2026’? Full reply follows:

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Sexism

I can acknowledge this as a motivator 50+ years ago, but today, I can’t see an apparel company refusing to create something that would be profitable for this reason. Businesses, especially large modern ones, have no bias toward anything but the bottom line. That said, Gemini threw me a list of modern companies that are in fact aimed at this demand, so supporting them is the best way to get more companies to do so:

Objectively more effective than simply complaining that more companies aren’t.

Money: Fashion companies make tens of billions selling women purses. If women had real pockets, we may not need purses.

The highest end luxury purses have barely any capacity to actually hold things, and are used more as status indicators than for utility. More ‘regular’ purses that are primarily purchased for their utility/capacity have capacity far beyond what any pair of regular-sized (equivalent to men’s) pockets could hold, and could never be completely obsoleted by pockets. If anything, the prevalence of pockets might over time reduce those purses’ size to compensate.

I don’t think this argument really holds water.