As a cis male who mostly wears workwear, I have found myself with a truly puzzling question...
What is the point of this little breast pocket near my left shoulder?
I have like 10 t-shirts with a tiny breast pocket right over my left nipple, and what am I supposed to put in there? I've never put fucking anything in this pocket, but it's always there with a tiny tag from whatever manufacturer made the shirt.
Related: why do baby clothes have pockets? What do they need to carry? Pretty rocks, sticks and sand of course, but whats the non-joking rationale behind giving babies pockets?
It serves an aesthetic function by way of breaking up the uniform look of the front of your shirt, giving it some nice asymmetri.
The pocket used to be bigger so you could have a little note book or a pack of ciggies or something in it, but I've noticed shirt makers often make it unuseably small now.
The only purpose I've found is when I play card games with my friends and they ask me (for e.g.) hey ppintandclique where are your hand cards and I say huh? Handcards? Sorry, I only have pocket cards and then I take my cards out of the breast pocket
pens, pencils, slide rules, notebooks. I think it's a holdover from when we used to have analog math. You can store stuff in it and access it while you're sitting at a desk or whatever without standing up. This is all conjecture I don't actually know.
Yeah you’d have a pocket protector, a plastic or leather pouch holding your pen/s so they wouldn’t leak on your shirt or your compass would catch. Keeps them from falling out if you bend over. Usually have a compass, pen, pencil, ruler etc depending on your job.
My parents/older family members/friends and teachers had them before everything was computers and phones.
I am a mailman. I keep so much shit in that pocket. Pens, markers, little thumb thimble that helps grip letters, employee id, sunglasses, cards to leave if someone isn’t home, airpod case… it’s actually a surprisingly spacious pocket lol.
Also I don’t smoke but for 90% of people who smoke who wear workwear that is the official pack of smokes pocket. In your pants pockets they get smooshed.
Yeah, we did that with Mp3 players back before smart phones were a thing. CD players and cassette players were too bulky, they had to be worn on a belt, carried in a bag, carried in hand, or shoved in a pocket if you had a big enough pocket.
I think I saw a tailor's pamphlet showing all the possible places he could sew in pockets to a jacket and it was like 50 different options, just basically "Where would you like your pocket I can make you a pocket I can make you fifty goddamn pockets".
Retvrn to clothes that fit and lasted more than three washes.