VIA| Are you wearing a pair of jeans right now? If not go to your closet. Then take a close look at the pockets. Do you notice that small little one residing inside of your bigger front pocket? ever wonder what it’s for?
For more than a hundred years, jeans were a relatively obscure piece of clothing that workers like miners only wore.
But in the 1950s, blue jeans exploded into popularity when James Dean wore them in Rebel Without A Cause.
Today you’ll see people wearing jeans from all walks of life in all cities on the planet. But while they come in all types of styles – skinny, regular, slim, boot-cut – jeans all have one thing in common.
There’s a little extra pocket that’s just a bit too small to really hold anything useful.
So why do these little pockets exist?
Well when Levi first created the modern-day jeans, no one had wristwatches. If you wanted to know the time, you had a little watch that went into one of your pockets – hence the pocket watch.
The small pocket on jeans was for people to have a safe place to store their pocket watch.
But in our modern culture, practically no one uses pocket watches anymore. It’s a mystery why they’re still being manufactured with the “pocket watch” slot.
While these pockets might not be as useful, here are some ideas of what you could put in your mini-pocket
- Flash drive
- Candy
- Lighter
- Key
- Money
- Business card
- Small pocket knife
What do you use your mini pocket for in your jeans?
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Don’t talk about the 50s. In 1940 at Christmas my town (Rockport, MA) gave out what we called dungarees (you call them jeans) Same pants, but free to kids back then because the great depression was still on. Once a year, free dungarees.
Really? You didn’t know what the picker was for?
I use mine for my pocket watch.
My husband has a medal of Padre Pio
I always thought that little pocket was for coins.andrew
I still use my pocket watch and my watch pocket. My job required me to use my arms and hands under some very exaggerated circumstances and a watch usually ended up destroyed so I decided to use my pocket watch, and NOBODY asked me the time while I carried a cup of coffee!
I use the one in my jeans to house my .25 Cal. Auto Concealed Carry. Works great.
Extra magazine
Chapstick
Aspirin tablets, 2.
I put change in mine !
I use it to keep my pills in. If no pills, quarters for parking meters.
That is known as a “Watch Pocket”!
Don’t you guys do any research?
Everybody knows what it is!
the watch pocket is perfect for the small flip top cell phone. I use it every day
the small pocket was and still is for small coins, spare change.
it was never meant for a pocket watch, (STUPID answer a pocket watch) would not fit in the small pocket.a
Your not serious, are you? That is exactically what it was designed for, a pocket watch.
I use my little pocket for my 1 hitter!
Bullets, It holds (12).22, (6) .38/.45 or (3) .410 x 2-3/4