The little side pocket on jeans, what are they for?

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from when SNL was still good (okay, a matter for debate) "you can put your weeeeeed in it"

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 January 2003 05:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven months pass...

Nah, the baggie might get slightly caught and unroll when you take it out. No good. I use to carry a pocketwatch around--never liked how a watch feels--and would keep it in there.
And now you know...the rest of the story.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 23 August 2003 06:26 (twenty years ago) link

fuck watches. I wear work pants with the hammer loop and the tool pocket. My cell (which doubles as my watch) goes in the pocket for the hammer handle and the rest is for various other accoutrements. It's cool, like the cargo pockets on shorts but without all the annoying buttons and velcro etc.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 06:30 (twenty years ago) link

I tried that but found it annoying to have my phone in that pocket--too low, would slap against my leg.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 23 August 2003 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

its on 'womens jeans too' !! hey!

i find it is just an annoying little pocket that i try to put my keys in and when they dont fit i realise " oh im trying to fit them in the stupid LITTLE pocket!"

pockets are a great thing though, arent they? i love em.
if i was a bigger peson i would have clothes covered in pockets so i could carry all my stuff in them without the need for a bag! as it is, i would probably be so weighed down i would be crawling :-(

― donna (donna), Saturday, 23 August 2003 06:55 (twenty years ago) link

I have pants like that too Millar, the low side pocket is also perfect for smokes

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 23 August 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link

http://toychestandcollectables.com/shop/media/swat_sheriff_300.jpg

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 23 August 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

Uh, $20 baggies of coke. Duh.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 23 August 2003 07:17 (twenty years ago) link

Mark S is the only one to have got it right so far.

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 23 August 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link

thanks to oops and Sam I have now decided all dealers should dress like that

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

As above: keys, plectrums.

― [If you want to post here, drop the racist name - Moderator], Sunday, 24 August 2003 00:37 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

― bandit, Friday, 19 March 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link

If those pockets are for pocket watches, and mobile phones are the new pocket watch, shouldn't someone re-design those pockets to fit a phone? If it went behind your pocket rather than inside it, that would work, surely?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 20 March 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

I use them for pennies when I have to go buy a single stamp (which is fairly frequently). I don't like those worthless one-cent things rubbing against my dimes and quarters.I also use it for my headphone adapter (I have to use my walkman headphones when I'm on the radio and the deck uses big jacks)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 March 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

I have a tiny clamshell Samsumg phone, and it does fit in the watchpocket of some of my jeans.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 20 March 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

I've never worn a watch. Never liked 'em. And I don't own a cell phone. So I sometimes have to ask people what time it is. And it's interesting to me how many people do use their cell phones as their portable timepiece. I wonder if watches will be obsolete soon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 March 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

being a playa i keep a travel toothbrush in my little pocket as i never know where i shall be in the morning

― william pouch, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

I use it to store uncut diamonds when traveling as part of my glamorous international lifestyle. Especially conflict diamonds.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

This is, of course, problematic because my tuxedo trousers (and I'm usually wearing a tux as part of my glamorous international lifestyle, of course) don't have a watch/conflict diamond pocket. So I have to wear Levis underneath my tuxedo trousers. This too is problematic, because it makes it harder to have sex with Halle Berry at the drop of a hat, also part of the job.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

And lint. Conflict lint.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

it's for storing pot when going through customs. I'm sure that's what Levi Strauss had in mind.

― bip, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, i smoked pot crumbs and lint out of one of those pockets for like 3 months

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

This is good shit mang.

What is it?

It's a mix of some white rhino and some levis 501.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe that belgian model should have stored her cocaine there when coming from france into NY. :-)

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

It's where I keep an extra piece of love for you.

― Huck, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Smoking lint causes brane damage!

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I put a tube of Super Glue in that little pocket once. Good thing. I guess it got flexed too much from being in a pocket, and it split in the middle, and soaked the fabric and now there's a little fozzilized lump of super glue tube in that pocket. If it had been in the big pocket, it would have gotten fossilized to my leg instead of soaking the fabric. God damn that would have been hard to get those pants off & take care of. Probably would have had to cut off the pocket and then had a pocket glued to my leg for a week.

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

You need a ticket to pass out at Glastonbury?

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

despite all these years, I'm beginning to think thumb warmer is the logical answer to this.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

A Zippo lighter seems to fit perfectly into one of these pockets.

― MikeD, Friday, 22 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I use mine either for guitar picks, if I'm at band practice or about to play a show, or sometimes if I'm taking the bus and I get my bus fare out of my wallet but I don't want to hold on to it while waiting for the bus, I keep my premeasured bus fare in there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

That smallest size of swiss army knife.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

sometimes you just need a small pocket.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

It's alright for a small cell phone.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

You all must have tiny fingers and very loose jeans.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

you guys are all so pistachios and starky, thank you for the help. i was very confused about life, and didn't know what the little pocket was for, but thanks to all of you; i now know the reason for my cute little mini-pocket :)

― Kate and riley, Monday, 1 March 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link

my birthday is in 14 days

― Kate and riley, Monday, 1 March 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link

i mean 13

― Kate and riley, Monday, 1 March 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link

my friend brody told me its in 13 not 14. silly me

― Kate and riley, Monday, 1 March 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link

i have a cat

― Kate and riley, Monday, 1 March 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 March 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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― gelatinous rube (brownie), Monday, 1 March 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link

― jed_, Monday, 1 March 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link

That little pocket is where one keeps one's Ingersoll Dollar Pocket Watch.

http://www.antique-pocket-watch.com/image-files/ingersoll_dpw1.jpg

― Aimless, Monday, 1 March 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Aimless, you know that the watch goes in the pocket of one's waistcoat!

― La religion est une fatigante solution de paresse (Michael White), Monday, 1 March 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Msr. White, the Ingersoll watch was the watch of the masses, the working man, the farmer and the railroad worker. Waistcoat, indeed! (snorts derisively)

― Aimless, Monday, 1 March 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Pocket knife

― FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT IN THE PARKING LOT! (milo z), Monday, 1 March 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link

I hate this pocket. My phone keeps getting caught on it when putting it in my normal pocket.

― Jeff, Monday, 1 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Wait until something gets caught in your duodenal appendix while trying to pass through your gut. same type problem, really.

― Aimless, Monday, 1 March 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link

these pockets work perfect for coins fuck the haterz!!!!

― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 1 March 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link

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Apparently, the little pocket is a design feature to stop jeans from falling apart, reinforced the hip area.

This is what they want you to believe.

― jel--, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link

Apparently, the little pocket is a design feature to stop jeans from falling apart, reinforced the hip area.

This is what they want you to believe.

― jel--, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link

I said it twice, accidentally

― jel--, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link

Wouldn't reinforcing one side put increased stress on the other side?

― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link

find them useful for holding my ring/wedding band, which would fall out of a larger pocket. surprised this hasn't been mentioned before.

― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

Good point. Perhaps, reinforcing one side is built in obsolescence?

― jel--, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

eheh great thread. I don't think it would be comfortable to carry several coins in that pocket (and coins are a thing of the past anyway, especially in a post covid era).
Same for a watch (and many people don't use wristwatches anymore, let alone old watches).
I say it's a mistake of evolution. like the appendix.

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link

nevermind the waist

― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link

The small riveted watch pocket was first added by Levi Strauss to their jeans in the late 1870s.[19]

― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link

"The watch pocket was an original element of our blue jeans, like the rivets on our pockets, button fly, arched back pocket stitching and leather patch," Panek said. "To preserve the integrity of the early design, Levi Strauss & Co. maintains the watch pocket."

― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link

Mine is very much for washing plectrums.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link

it's for my keys and my airpods, duh.

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link

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