Let me help you younguns. Its a watch pocket. Back in the day when jeans were invented men had pocket watches,
No, but I'm old enough to remember my granddad called it and have the railroad watch he used to carry there. He was an engineer and the trains ran on time. Interesting how long the design lasted.
I read somewhere that Trains was the reason time ran on time.
As in, before trains "Mid-day" was a different time wherever you went, it was just the time that the church rang the bell. Sure it was around midday because the sun was up there right at the top, but it wasn't exactly midday.
Then the trains came along and they had timetables. To start with they could leave one station a quarter past twelve and arrive at the next one at 5 to twelve, so they had to synchronise the time over the whole line, so that's why time runs on time.
It's a watch pocket; in case anybody was wondering the actual answer. Pocket.. watch... watch pocket...
You can shove a clock in your pants. You friend can shove a clock in their pants, but you cannot shove your clock in your friends pants.
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In Germany we need coins to unlock supermarket carts, so I use the coin pocket for it's intended purpose to house my one coin.
Pretty sure it started as a watch pocket.
It turned into a "coin" pocket when pocket watches went out of fashion and people didn't know what else to use them for.
How does that fit in there? I feel like whenever my pants have a coin pocket, they can only fit a singular penny or one stamp. I could probably also put a singular earbud in there, but imagining the entire case in there is wild to me.
My Guess jeans can actually fit an entire Leatherman multitool in that 'tiny' pocket. I think that's pretty damn cool, 10/10 would recommend Guess jeans. 👍
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Text at the top reads: what is that small jean pocket actually for The first image shows a hand pointing downwards and to the right and the text underneath "a safe place for my finger to hide", the finger has a label reading "he is so nervous" The second image shows a ravioli square and the text "ravioli" underneath The third image shows a naked, balding grey-haired man with a mustache, waving and smiling from his place inside the aforementioned pocket and the text "a home for kevin"
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I've received a few "good human"s, it seems to be pretty much whatever you like. I don't know why one person took offense at your question though.
“The small pocket in jeans, often referred to as the "watch pocket" or "coin pocket," was originally designed to hold pocket watches. Nowadays, it's commonly used for carrying small items like coins, keys, or other small objects.”
How many people using pocket watches have you come across this year?
Maybe we should bring that back! I never liked wrist watches.
I really like pocket watches and have tried them out. Skeleton pocket watches are beautiful but kind of hard to read. Main issue is that they are usually mechanically spring powered which requires proper winding technique and doing it frequently.
I carry an electronic pocket watch everywhere i go. It's replaced the wrist watch for me. It's too big to fit in that pocket though, that's where i keep my weed.
There’s probably a Venn diagram out there of people who use pocket watches and people who wear fedoras. I’m sure it’s one circle.
Oh whoops, I thought this was a parent comment and was replying from my inbox. Haha, I wasn't trying to troll.
All good, in fairness that was specifically stated earlier, I just don't think to take it literally. I appreciate the answer either way.
In literally every pair of pants I have, I use that to store a hair elastic or two. Then whenever I need my hair up (eg, eating and hair would get in the way), I have one easily on hand.
Watch out with that, I did it for years but eventually had to stop because I got sore skin from the gasoline in the Zippo. And I quit smoking so didn't need it any more 🙂