Why Do Jeans Have this Little Pocket?
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Have you ever wondered about the purpose of that tiny pocket on your jeans? The one nestled inside the larger front pocket? Join us in this fascinating exploration of the little pocket's origins, evolution, and modern uses.
In this video, we dive deep into the history of this small yet significant feature, from its inception by Levi Strauss & Co. in the 19th century to its adaptation for contemporary needs. Discover how a simple design meant to hold pocket watches for cowboys and miners has evolved into a versatile component of modern denim fashion.
Whether you're a denim enthusiast, a history buff, or just curious about everyday objects, this video is packed with intriguing details and surprising facts.
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When I was a kid we used it for coin change.
It doesn't matter what age someone is to store items in the fifth pocket.
An eight-minute video to tell us it is a Watch pocket.
Almost didn’t have enough time to watch the 25 minute video on the belt loops.
Yep, some folks just love the sound of their own voice. Blah, blah, blah
Um, they told you at 1:10 into the video. If you stayed to the end then you enjoyed it more than you are are admitting.
The statistic used by advertisers that generate income for YTubuers is based on minutes watched which encourages some YTubers to elongate their videos. 💵
Dumb vid!
Before the days of wrist watches, it was originally a pocket for your pocket watch.
And pocket watches were still in common use as late as the 1960s contrary to what is stated in the video narration.
During my 67 year life I have worn various styles of pants that had watch pockets sewn into right front pocket, none on then were cotton denim jeans.
Too small
Guitarists know what it's for.
When I carried a flip phone that's where it lived.
I collect pocket watches and that’s what I use this for. 50mm watch fits in there just fine.
I'm 77. As a teen, I carried a pocket watch. I was always on the lookout for a nice-looking fob and chain.
I chafe on your use of the term "Little Pocket" for what I've always known as a watch pocket.
I've never had a pocket watch to put in it, but it is handy for other small things I don't want to misplace.
In the early '90s I heard a couple of kids in Walmart refer to it as a "pager pocket."
It is in fact a musicians pocket. It is just the right size to hold all the money you will ever make as a musician! 🤣
I used it to put my pocket knife for years.
I still carry a pocket watch occasionally, and use that little watch pocket for its original intended purpose.
Wearing jeans for 75 years and I have never put anything in that pocket!
Levi Strauß brought the idea of the little pocket with his from Bavaria were pants have such a pocket for knifes. Not for fighting, for work. Traditional clothes from there still have this pocket, just the knife is rarely there. The location of this pocket also differs depending on reach and profession.
I have always used it to store my small pocket knife.
Due to our Deutscher Ursprung, we here in South Africa 🇿🇦 also had this well before Levi Strauss ever sewed a single jean.
@@afriquelesud Only because Levi Strauss was born too late ...
That’s the johnny pocket
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about a minute of useful information… rest is wordfill
When I was a kid Watch Pockets were a big fad and we would collect fancy Pocket Watches but now I just use it as a Pick Pocket to keep different guitar picks in... 😃
The watch pocket is excellent for holding emergency keys for the car and home.
What are "emergency keys"? I store my house key in it and can use it when there isn't an emergency.
@@riproar11 I worked construction and had a regular key ring. In case of loosing my keys, I had a car key and a house key in my watch pocket. Only needed them a few times in 35 years but, well worth it. Good Luck, Rick
@@richardross7219 I found that one strange too, I mean, emergency keys, actually worn on your person! Seems just putting your actual keys there would do the same trick, right? I use a hollowed rock in my garden at home for emergency house key and have a spare car key wired under the car for that purpose. Back in the day I used a steering wheel lock and kept its spare key hidden under the dash. Maybe you just didn't give it enough thought 🤔
@@originalsusser Its a lot faster and easier to get the spare key out of a watch pocket than to retrieve it from some hidden place. I've seen a couple of the magnetic hide-a-keys on the road, so I know that they can fall off. When I was a kid, I was taught to carry some change in there to make a phone call if needed. The couple of times that my keys were locked in the car, it was worth the effort to keep the spare keys in the watch pocket. Good Luck, Rick
@@richardross7219 From a time & motion perspective to reach under the car, feel the key, give it 3 twists anticlockwise & pull it out once every few years compared to having to remember to grab your keys, wallet, phone, & keys again everyday of your life. Then also to loose the convenience of having that pocket for more important things like coins, small notes, girls numbers 'before mobiles', condoms, pager, flip phone, sometimes my actual keys.
I don't know? It still seems strange to me to carry around 2 sets of keys for the very, very rare times you would take advantage of that time saving by having them there in your fob pocket. Seems over ones life you would spend way more time remembering to take them, then removing them at the end of the day than you would ever save by carrying them... just saying Rick
They're also perfect for holding speedloaders for reloading revolvers. One for a 38/357, or two for a .32 cal revolver.
@@richardjohnson4238 only in America....
The watch pocket is a pocket for a watch? Never would have guessed... I used to use them for tickets and stuff.
Guitar picks fit perfectly and make it the "pick pocket"
Two of the numerous thoughts I come away with are: 1. The irony of the original idea that jeans were designed for durability, yet today are worn torn and ragged. And 2. The idea of adding modern technology that would make the timeless, good old affordable American standby something that many won't be able to afford.
I carried a pocket watch for years . I wore blue jeans to work every day .
It's natural to pull out your watch and have you thumb on the wind stem and check the time with noon at top.
I wonder what left-handed people do .... the watch pocket is always on right .
watch picket should be on both front pockets. Left handed people like me are always discriminated against.
WOW I always used it for change back in the day but i love reading all the great ideas people use them for
I've always referred to it as the condoms pocket
Has been perfect for my house keys for decades.
I keep my zippo in the little pocket.
In the '70s we all smoke cigarettes so I simply used it for my lighter.
It was commonly used to store condoms, an easy reach and emergency package, this replaced the theory of watches in the mid 20th century.
As teenagers in 1960's London the little pocket was known to us as the 'condom pocket.' A pack of condoms fit inside it perfectly.
I use that pocket for an Apple iWatch that I turned into a pocket watch, had no clue that's what it was orignally for 🤣
wearing jeans for 40 years and never found any meaningful use for that pocket
I use that pocket for my Kongsheng Baby Fat Harmonica. Fits perfectly!
You made this longer than it needed to be. Anyway, I carry my pill containers there, and for the pants with larger "little" pockets, small sanitizer bottles.
I’m pretty sure I used to keep my weed and rolling papers in there when I was a teenager.
I used to carry a pocket watch. I would again if there were a suitable one. I hate wrist watches.
Before cell phones it carried coins for a pay phone.
Hey Grandpa what are you doing up here ?... 🤣🤣🤣
I've put change, doggy poop pick up bags, weed and keys in those pockets.
How unimportant it is to argue it's purpose.
Bah!
I used the little pocket for change as a young boy in the 1950's. Now in the 2020's I use it for change. Paper money goes in the wallet in a back pocket and change goes in the little pocket.
Ahhh! Young boy in the 50s. No wonder you're not into ripped jeans. Being a teen in the early 80s it was part of our fashion culture so was fully acceptable when worn in the right situation. You probably didn't like spikey hair or men wearing earrings either. Early Boomers & the Gens before them were highly prejudiced against anything that was outside of their norm, you know short, back & sides, ironed shirts tucked in, polished shoes, wearing collars to MacDonald's etc... 🤓🥸🧐 🙄
@@originalsusser You make a lot of assumptions, which are not true in this case. I just think the torn jeans fashion is stupid and non-functional. I'm more tolerant of anything outside the norm than you think. Boomers made a lot of changes from their parents generation, but you don't know your history well, so you just assume.
@@wannabetowasabe "I'm more tolerant of anything outside the norm than you think" so says the person who thinks a 'look' is "stupid and non-functional"... oK Boomer 👍
@@originalsusser I live at 8,000 feet in the mountains. We have about 7 months of winter. Pants with holes in them are non-functional. The town I live in is a year round resort. We generally only see pants with holes on people who come from big cities. Although, I have seen some local young teenagers with these pants. They will disregard the weather to look "stylish." Like I say these types of pants are non-functional. That sums up a lot of "cool" style. We boomers had some of that and look back at it and are either laughing or if in a group looking at old pictures are embarrassed. I remember the "leisure suits" and remember my wife roping me into buying one. It was in style for about 2-3 years so I trashed the whole thing, which included platform shoes. I remember arguing with my wife about the leisure suits looking stupid, but bowed to her wishes, which is something I didn't do very often on matters of "fashion."
@wannabetowasabe Pleeasse 🙏 the more you try to justify your ignorant and intolerant rant, the $tupider you sound. I will give this, though, if you were born in the late 40s, early 50s. Your childhood, youth, and early adulthood would have been dominated by the 3 worst decades in the history of fashion. Yokel, clean cut, okee dokee 50s, dirty smelly hippy 60s, and of course the famous decade that fashion forgot, the 70s. As you yourself kindly referred to regarding leisure/safari suits. I can sort of understand your narrow mindedness when every pic of you from back then was taken during this horrible era. Of course you looked ridiculous. I almost feel sorry for you... almost!
I use it for anything that will fit in there.
I have a protective clip for my credit and debit cards that fits into it perfectly
The King of Queens says the small pocket is for chapstick.
I use it for my great -great grandfather's pocket watch that I still carry everyday!!
Jeep 🚙 : just empty every pocket, i know, i bought one.
Thank you. I use it to store my Switch Army knife!
It’s Swiss 🙃
@@col145 |Thank you. Of course it is. The wonders of automatic completion and not paying attention...
@@col145So when they start making Switch Army Pocket Watches I'll be happy... 🤣🤣🤣
Me too...
I use mine for speeding tickets.
I have a key chain with a dozen keys on it, but I generally need just two of them: a house key and a car key. That's where I have kept those 2 keys for the last 50 years.
It was used for pocket watches, but also for small change, when we used much coins. I carried my Canon PowerShot A810 camera in there, and my late father used it for his .25 FN Baby Browning pistol. Today, that's where my apartment keys go. Not only jeans, but all trousers and even some short pants had this. #boomersknowstuff
Always stashed my ZIPPO in there or my iPOD after they came out. Now I buy Cargo Pants to store my 1950s TV sized Cell Phone in their pockets.
On my 5-pocket golf pants I use it to store my tees.
To hold your guitar picks!
lol. That's a good one.
It's perfect for guitar picks.
Skip the first minute of this video and you will miss nothing of interest. This video was able to take one minute of information And drag it out. I was born in 1960 and I never recall anyone ever using these pockets for change electronic devices maybe one or two people put a lighter in there.
I used to carry a pocket watch in it, now the cellphone serves that purpose. Now I carry the cars fob in it.
I was told it was a place for lads to keep a pack of condoms - ! 😅
All pants should have the "watch pocket" because it is very handy for holding important small items you don't want rattling around, becoming damaged by other items in the larger pockets. Important tip: never attach your house keys to your car keys.
Here's my Important tip: Don't lose your keys so much 🙄
I used to carry a pocket watch ( wrist watches irratate my wrist ) so into the early 80s i still used for it's origanil use
For your plectrums.
When Levi's were designed, wristwatches were either nonexistent or so expensive, only the rich could afford them.
Levi's were made for the working class, who could only afford pocket watches.
That little pocket is for those pocket watches.
8 minutes to say it’s a pocket for pocket watches.
I have always known it as a fob pocket named after the fob watch.
AKA "cheat'n pocket"--where I keep my wedding ring when I go dancing.
Jeans, Watch pocket, I,m 82 I know
Dont put your thumb in there because when you trip over you break it trying to pull it out before you hit the ground. I know because i id it
Extra belt loops hold your tools better.
I use it for my car's fob.
Rubbers.. you can cram about 3 in that.. which is usually enough..
I always kept my zippo in that pocket.
The answer to why the “little pocket” (really, the watch pocket) exists is at 1:57.
I still use it to store coins and sometimes mmy little box withhearing devices. Items may not stick out because of theft or loosing it.
It’s a change pocket, to put coins in.
Every day a school day. Ive always used it to put my cigarette lighter.
I used to carry a little smoke pipe in there. Lol
I love it for a tiny lighter or chapstick
As a child i used it for my six dollar pocket watch,later my flip phone
Yeah, mine is used for a USB drive or ear buds
Back in the 90s, when I used to carry cash, I would put bank notes there. My gf att would always happily do my washing. I only worked out later it was a way to earn a few extra bucks because I often left them there! Nowadays I put my car fob there
So your gf att took the money from your pants and stole it from you rather than hand it to you?
@@riproar11 Yerr! I suppose that's one way of looking at it. Maybe another was that she was a real domestic type, not just washing my clothes but generally cleaning up after me, gardening & she loved to cook plus she was a tireless wildcat in the sack on a nightly basis so I looked back in hindsight on the cost as a real bargain
It is a fob pocket.
Just assumed it was to put your hash in.
Zippo lighter pocket? IDK ?
Pocket is for a zippo lighter .
I really have to question the likelihood of working men having pocket watches. They were expensive and there was little reason for a working man to know the time.
My grandfather worked on the railroad and they were required to have a watch that kept accurate time. I still have his watch.
@@kerrysumners1333 The men who had to have accurate time pieces were the conductor on the train and the station master.
Really nice that you still have it. Does it work? Is there a brand?
I use mine for my AirPods.
I like to carry a folded up Kraft single in my watch pocket
Yeah me too I used it for coin change or condoms 😂
I keep ear plugs in mine.
Perfect for airpods
I honestly thought everyone knew that.
Have we gone so far as to not know what a watch pocket is?
I’ve seen videos where folks who should know better called the watch pocket strange names
it's a watch pocket
Emergency dime pocket in case you had to call home
Wow. I’m getting really old.
in my day I used it for pocket watches, coins, condoms and drugs
Watch pocket. Sheesh.
I thought it was the mobile phone pocket.
@@NoahSpurrier Even the smallest phones never fit in that pocket.
@@KlausKokholmPetersenhave you seen Zoolander?
@@originalsusser Dereks phone was never available for us mere mortals..... 🤣
No, it was made to hold your zippo lighter.
Very informative 👏👏BUT why are they called Jeans ?
Hi! The word 'Jeans' comes from “genoese” or “genes” to describe the tough twill trousers worn by merchant sailors from the Italian coastal city of Genoa :) you can also check out our video about The Origin of Denim Jeans here: ruclips.net/video/UwUhtGx6D_I/видео.htmlsi=w7VBp2wnK5i_Dy3_
@@historyofsimplethings ❤️
The answer could have been made in under 2 minutes in the explanation.
Agree. They made it World war II history video😄😄😂😂
Guitar picks. Durr
Obviously. I thought everybody knew that.
I keep my kitchen sink in my watch pocket.
I put a lighter on a cord like a watch.
Thats where your weeks pay goes after they take out the taxes we didnt vote for......
Looks like World War II video 😄😄😂😂
Never used them. Pointless. 🇦🇺👍🍺
It’s for you pay after taxes
iPods? 🤣