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So did we all. Miners would secret gold nuggets in them. Whether or not they were actually the owners of said nuggets. 😁I was of the overly tight jeans era, easy to slip the quarters in, not so easy to fish them back out.
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.
@@AuLily1 Because denim acts s a wick and does not melt, I am sure that you just patted it out with your hand, leaving no damage to the jeans or burns on your hand. When we smoked after school, we used the pocket as an ashtray. Even crushing the cigarette out inside the pocket; Without air it did not burn heavy denim Levi's or Wranglers.
Great pocket for any small object you wanted to keep securely. Coins, a key, small flat pocket knife, couple of pieces of folding money. Loved my decades of jeans years.
Around the 1950s and 60s, as pocket watchs we're no longer in favor, it became known as the change pocket. I, however, have always referred to it as a watch pocket.
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."
Yup, when I was a young boy in the early ‘50s, I kept my first watch in that little pocket. After I graduated from a pocket watch to a wrist watch, the pocket was used to hold pennies refunded by the local mom and pop for returned beer bottles I’d find discarded in the woods.
😊😊😊😊....... @JiveDadson I went to hobby lobby and found some antique "looking" chain,then I took some momentoes from my kids/grandkids and attached them to the chain and made my own custom fob.
Remember that jeans did not come from the USA, they came from France. There was a variety of heavy duty farming and industrial fabric or clothing, etc from the city of Nimes and fabric from Nimes would be called fabrique/tissu "de Nimes", making "denim" and the heavy duty fabric for export was shipped on smaller coastal freighters to the largest Mediterranean port at Genoa which in French is spelt "Genes" marked on the crates, thus we get the name "jeans".
I'm 71 and I hope the watch pocket never disappears. I still occasionally wear one of my pocket watches. It's just such a classic feel to have a pocket watch im my pocket. I NEVER wear a wrist watch anymore and most of the time, I don't have a watch on me at all. I'm retired and don't need exact time generally. I have an uncanny ability to look at the sky and tell within 15 to 30 minutes what time it is. Maybe it's my Boy Scout training. I can usually tell you which way is generally north without a compass. If I'm following a precise plot on a map, then of course I use a compass.
For years I worked in the printing industry, where you do _not_ want to wear metal rings to work. I used to remove my rings and put them in that pocket for safe keeping until I left work for the day.
@@3RayJ3 That's for sure! But there are printing methods where rings are a liability beyond pinch hazards. I worked in rotogravure printing, where a ring could scratch and damage a copper cylinder before it was chrome plated. Also, hoists and other tools could damage a ring pretty easily. Those are the reasons I removed my wedding band at work. 😃 Peace!
@truthseeker9454 And I always removed mine too. It was a company regulation. However, My safety manager, with 7 fingers, was much more concerned about us tucking in our rag corners when cleaning the plates or blankets.
@@3RayJ3 God bless him! He knew the dangers from experience and didn't want you guys to go through that. You were wise to follow those rules. What kind of presses did you work on, were they web or sheet fed?
@truthseeker9454 Web. My father founded Web Specialties, a known industry company. I worked for Treasure Chest in Tampa and Sacramento. Offset printing, mainly the advertising you get in your sunday paper.
next time use chatbot to have a straight answer: The small inner pocket on jeans, often called a "watch pocket," dates back to the 1800s. Levi's originally added it for cowboys and workers to store pocket watches securely. Over time, the pocket stuck around as a design feature, even though most people don’t use it for watches anymore. Today, it’s just a nostalgic detail that many still use for small items like coins, keys, or even earbuds.
I have several pairs of fold-up glasses, each in its own pouch. The pouch just about fits in the little pocket, though I wish the little pocket was just a bit larger to better accommodate them. I also carry the type of twist ties used to secure (e.g., plastic bags containing produce) -- you never know when those might come in handy.
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 still have my very first Levi's 501 jeans way back in the 90's. It was the most comfortable jeans I ever own. Though it barely fits me anymore. It has a lot of sentimental value that I just don't want to get rid of it.
It was intended as a change pocket I always thought. But in my case, Wrangler had a pocket there sized PERFECTLY for my Lucky Goldstar "Aloha" model flipphone.
I've used it every single time I wear a pair. They are scarce. It's gotten to the point where I have to order them online in Arizona. Or go to the roping capital of the world. Wickenburg Az. FYI the North American 22 long rifle revolver fits perfectly.
I wear my pocket watch in that pocket and have since 1967. Still rather use a mechanical pocket watch carried in my vest or in my Levi watch pocket. Never found a good reason to change. Slainte !
Fun fact: the current denim jeans design, at least the parts making them durable - rivets and double-stitch patterns - were invented by Jēkobs Jufess. You won't find that name in descriptions, because he changed it to more American-palatable Jacob Williams Davis after immigrating to US from Riga, Latvia (1854, aged 23, then colonised by Russian empire). Most descriptions don't mention his first nationality and origins or wrongly call him "Latvian-descent". He *was* a Latvian of Jewish descent. A self-made taylor, buying denim and cotton-duck fabric from a small dry-goods merchant called Levi&Strauss co. Making various items and work-clothes for railway workers, he received requests to make the denim trousers more durable (ex.g. there was a guy stashing stones in pockets which ripped them). He then incorporated rivets used for horse blankets into structural stress points of jeans along with the double-stitching. Seeing the popularity and potential, he asked Strauss to co-fund the patient application for his designs and shared the patient. Only after that Lewis&Strauss co. started producing jeans as we know them today on industrial scale. Jacob Davis (Dāvis is a Latvian name btw.) kept his back-pocket double-stitch design in orange thread for his own brand for a while, now a Lewis&Strauss co. trademark look.
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... 😃
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.
The best use I've ever figured out for that little pocket. You get the pocket knife that has the metal stud to open it sometimes ambidextrous. Put it facing down inside your pocket and then pull up and forward away from you and it will open just like a switchblade🎉
Before watching the video or reading anyone's comments, I want to put in my own guess. I think it was used to hold spare coins. I had some jeans like that in the 70s and that is how I used that pocket. Quarters fit perfectly.
The small pocket in jeans, often called a "watch pocket," dates back to the 1800s. It was originally designed by Levi Strauss for cowboys and miners to hold a pocket watch securely. Back then, people commonly carried pocket watches, and the small, reinforced pocket was a practical solution to keep the watch safe from damage while working. Over time, as pocket watches became less common, the little pocket remained as a stylistic feature and a vestige of the original design, even though it’s now mostly used for small items like coins or a key.
@@expendable001 Your teacher had a great imagination! A Derringer would be a little bit too big because it's bulkier than a pocket watch which are usually designed flatter and smoother.
I didn't know it started as a watch pocket. I've always used it & thought of it as a change pocket. In fact, I wish it was more common in all pants 👖! My change always dives to the bottom of my pocket!
I've been using it for my EDC lately: A multitool and a small can with cigs and a lighter. Not part of my kit since I don't have any use for it, but the can while small can fit a disposable lighter and, instead of cigs (or less cigs at least), some tinder, maybe a needle and thread, a scalpel blade, or small enough stuff like that.
For anyone wondering about the can itself and its size, it was the package of a fiber optic-to-ethernet transceiver, big enough to fit two disposable lighters stacked, or like 3 AA batteries
In Australia & I believe the UK pocket watches are referred to as fob watches so the small pocket is called the fob pocket & is used for holding coins.
Here in Tombstone, I keep an 1884 silver dollar to show our tourists... minted in New Orleans from metal mined just a few steps from our main street. Fits just fine!
When I was in my late teens to early 20s (many years ago) I kept a small pocket watch in my Levi 501 jeans but never found it to be very comfortable. So I switched to a change pocket for awhile but the pocket was too small for easy access and for over 40 years now that pocket has remained completely unused.
This is pretty common knowledge to anyone born before 1990. It’s almost like saying “what’s that spoon shaped thing on the end of all the stems in your silverware drawer for?”
Levi jeans were first made with a watch pocket in 1873 when Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented the original design of "waist overalls" which included a small pocket specifically intended to hold a pocket watch; this is considered the birth of blue jeans.
@@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
In my young days, i kept my larger change (quarters and half dollars) in there. Dimes, nickles and pennies went into the big pocket. I never had a pocket watch.
When I woke up this morning, the thought of that "little extra pocket on my jeans" never occurred to me. Now, going to bed, I know something I never imagined I would want to know.
I have not worn jeans since 1999... that's a quarter of a century. Why I ditched jeans... the pockets could not cope with what I wanted to keep in my pockets. They always wound up with holes in the pockets before they were worn out otherwise.
One thing you shouldn't keep in the pocket is kitchen matches. I used to when I smoked, until one day they rubbed together and lit. I managed to put them out before I got burned.
Pocket watches. Watches were a lot bigger back in the day and they put little pockets in jeans overalls and other trousers. Men had a little keychain or fob to hold secure it to their clothing. When men wore vests (or waistcoats) they also had little pockets for watches. I have my grandfathers watch which was passed down. I had it cleaned but it keeps lousy time. It is pretty big. You can still buy pocket watches.
I always knew it as a ''Ticket pocket'' here in the U.K. So for 63 years I've been wrong ! Seemed to make sense though - much easier to fish a ticket out of, than it being in the bottom of a large / deep pocket. Course, you don't see many tickets either these days! (Bus/cinema/train).
I use it for nothing. It is so badly positioned that any solid thing in there inevitably grates on my hip bone and makes certain positions (e.g. sitting) quite uncomfortable.
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.
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.
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Dumb vid!
Guitar picks fit perfectly and make it the "pick pocket"
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You beat me to it.🙃
I was just going to ask where else would I put my guitar picks?
Change when you don't want it rattling in with your car keys
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.
Me too😂😂😂😂
So did we all. Miners would secret gold nuggets in them. Whether or not they were actually the owners of said nuggets. 😁I was of the overly tight jeans era, easy to slip the quarters in, not so easy to fish them back out.
@@DIDYOUSEETHAT172i remember that too……I also thought it was going to be a key pocket or something 🇺🇸🕊
I still do!
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 still carry a pocket watch occasionally, and use that little watch pocket for its original intended purpose.
Answer is at 1:40
Thank you.
The Zippo lighter fits nicely, handy when camping, even if you don't smoke, fires got to be lit.
My sentiments exactly. A zippo fits perfectly. I accidentally overfilled mine and ended up with a fuel burn on my hip.
@@AuLily1 Because denim acts s a wick and does not melt, I am sure that you just patted it out with your hand, leaving no damage to the jeans or burns on your hand.
When we smoked after school, we used the pocket as an ashtray. Even crushing the cigarette out inside the pocket; Without air it did not burn heavy denim Levi's or Wranglers.
You guys must wear really baggy pants.
Great pocket for any small object you wanted to keep securely. Coins, a key, small flat pocket knife, couple of pieces of folding money. Loved my decades of jeans years.
Around the 1950s and 60s, as pocket watchs we're no longer in favor, it became known as the change pocket. I, however, have always referred to it as a watch pocket.
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."
I chafe on your comment.
Wearing jeans for 75 years and I have never put anything in that pocket!
This is where I stashed my cocaine in the 80's.😊
@@redblack8414🙄 yeh, it was a good place to hide a joint too.
It’s not putting anything in it, it’s getting it out, like coins. Not a good look.
It's often really difficult to get out, also a key or similar in there can stick into you
I don't normally use it either, though I did put my thumb in there once
Yup, when I was a young boy in the early ‘50s, I kept my first watch in that little pocket. After I graduated from a pocket watch to a wrist watch, the pocket was used to hold pennies refunded by the local mom and pop for returned beer bottles I’d find discarded in the woods.
I still keep my watch in it. About 1970 I figured out that wristwatch bands give me a rash.
Same, I put a old Timex in it. ✌
I'm 77. As a teen, I carried a pocket watch. I was always on the lookout for a nice-looking fob and chain.
😊😊😊😊.......
@JiveDadson
I went to hobby lobby and found some antique "looking" chain,then I took some momentoes from my kids/grandkids and attached them to the chain and made my own custom fob.
You too I am also 77, 1947 model!
I've always referred to it as the condoms pocket
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U should make a video regarding condoms😜
You must use the smallest size 🤣
When we are at a party, I sometimes have to crush my cigarette out inside that pocket. So perhaps using it for my condoms is not a good idea. LOL
That little pocket was truly in-jean-ious!
shame on you but someone had to say it....
Remember that jeans did not come from the USA, they came from France. There was a variety of heavy duty farming and industrial fabric or clothing, etc from the city of Nimes and fabric from Nimes would be called fabrique/tissu "de Nimes", making "denim" and the heavy duty fabric for export was shipped on smaller coastal freighters to the largest Mediterranean port at Genoa which in French is spelt "Genes" marked on the crates, thus we get the name "jeans".
Thanks 👍.
The work clothes in France were not designed for the same purpose as the miner's work pants. American "jeans" were and are the best!
He was explaining the name origin. Not the quality.
@@kenseal Can Timmy read between the lines?
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Dope stash pocket (where legal, naturally).
Wow , the little pocket was invented as a little pocket but today is used as a little pocket . That's 8 minutes I'll never get back .
I'm 71 and I hope the watch pocket never disappears. I still occasionally wear one of my pocket watches. It's just such a classic feel to have a pocket watch im my pocket. I NEVER wear a wrist watch anymore and most of the time, I don't have a watch on me at all. I'm retired and don't need exact time generally. I have an uncanny ability to look at the sky and tell within 15 to 30 minutes what time it is. Maybe it's my Boy Scout training. I can usually tell you which way is generally north without a compass. If I'm following a precise plot on a map, then of course I use a compass.
68 and a former Boy Scout myself. I still know how to find north using a pocket watch thanks to the Scouts.
For years I worked in the printing industry, where you do _not_ want to wear metal rings to work. I used to remove my rings and put them in that pocket for safe keeping until I left work for the day.
I also worked in the printing industry for years. If you get pinched enough that your ring is involved, you have bigger problems.
@@3RayJ3 That's for sure! But there are printing methods where rings are a liability beyond pinch hazards. I worked in rotogravure printing, where a ring could scratch and damage a copper cylinder before it was chrome plated. Also, hoists and other tools could damage a ring pretty easily. Those are the reasons I removed my wedding band at work. 😃 Peace!
@truthseeker9454 And I always removed mine too. It was a company regulation. However, My safety manager, with 7 fingers, was much more concerned about us tucking in our rag corners when cleaning the plates or blankets.
@@3RayJ3 God bless him! He knew the dangers from experience and didn't want you guys to go through that. You were wise to follow those rules. What kind of presses did you work on, were they web or sheet fed?
@truthseeker9454 Web. My father founded Web Specialties, a known industry company. I worked for Treasure Chest in Tampa and Sacramento. Offset printing, mainly the advertising you get in your sunday paper.
next time use chatbot to have a straight answer:
The small inner pocket on jeans, often called a "watch pocket," dates back to the 1800s. Levi's originally added it for cowboys and workers to store pocket watches securely. Over time, the pocket stuck around as a design feature, even though most people don’t use it for watches anymore. Today, it’s just a nostalgic detail that many still use for small items like coins, keys, or even earbuds.
It’s for my Aldi quarter.
Beautiful...always handy! No digging, looking......
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It’s a well known pocket for condoms
WOW I always used it for change back in the day but i love reading all the great ideas people use them for
I used it to put my pocket knife for years.
So do l !
me too, one in there right now
A cell phone pocket should be the new standard
I have several pairs of fold-up glasses, each in its own pouch. The pouch just about fits in the little pocket, though I wish the little pocket was just a bit larger to better accommodate them. I also carry the type of twist ties used to secure (e.g., plastic bags containing produce) -- you never know when those might come in handy.
“You can put your weeed in to it”. 😆
It's a handy little pocket to keep your stash in.
Why do you NEED....stash? ASKING.
@littleme3597
[Cough] It's a good.. [cough] stash!
I used to put a Gram in there occasionally
No wonder when I get frisk they go straight for 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 ...
No. It was always a watch pocket. They didn't even have tiny knives back then.
I still have my very first Levi's 501 jeans way back in the 90's. It was the most comfortable jeans I ever own. Though it barely fits me anymore. It has a lot of sentimental value that I just don't want to get rid of it.
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.
That's what I have always known it as, although my condoms required the full-size pocket.
The remote key to my car fits there so well. I change into my leans a lot of the time when going out.
I use it for my great -great grandfather's pocket watch that I still carry everyday!!
It was intended as a change pocket I always thought.
But in my case, Wrangler had a pocket there sized PERFECTLY for my Lucky Goldstar "Aloha" model flipphone.
I've used it every single time I wear a pair. They are scarce. It's gotten to the point where I have to order them online in Arizona. Or go to the roping capital of the world. Wickenburg Az. FYI the North American 22 long rifle revolver fits perfectly.
In Thailand we used to call it "lighter pocket ".
I wear my pocket watch in that pocket and have since 1967. Still rather use a mechanical pocket watch carried in my vest or in my Levi watch pocket. Never found a good reason to change. Slainte !
I put my key in and struggle to get it out again. Looks funny in the rain when i need my bicycle key.
The early Flip Phones fit Great!
I use it for anything that will fit in there.
Fun fact: the current denim jeans design, at least the parts making them durable - rivets and double-stitch patterns - were invented by Jēkobs Jufess. You won't find that name in descriptions, because he changed it to more American-palatable Jacob Williams Davis after immigrating to US from Riga, Latvia (1854, aged 23, then colonised by Russian empire).
Most descriptions don't mention his first nationality and origins or wrongly call him "Latvian-descent". He *was* a Latvian of Jewish descent. A self-made taylor, buying denim and cotton-duck fabric from a small dry-goods merchant called Levi&Strauss co. Making various items and work-clothes for railway workers, he received requests to make the denim trousers more durable (ex.g. there was a guy stashing stones in pockets which ripped them). He then incorporated rivets used for horse blankets into structural stress points of jeans along with the double-stitching. Seeing the popularity and potential, he asked Strauss to co-fund the patient application for his designs and shared the patient. Only after that Lewis&Strauss co. started producing jeans as we know them today on industrial scale. Jacob Davis (Dāvis is a Latvian name btw.) kept his back-pocket double-stitch design in orange thread for his own brand for a while, now a Lewis&Strauss co. trademark look.
Worthy topic! Thanks.
What a cool video! Thank you for sharing
In the '70s we all smoke cigarettes so I simply used it for my lighter.
Zippo lighters.
I used to put my Zippo in it all the time until a got a bet holster for it.
*belt
Jeans, Watch pocket, I,m 82 I know
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! 🤣
😂tell that to paul McCartney 😂
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Well done 🙃
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When I was young Levis were made in America. They were durable and seemed to last forever. I used the small pocket for coins.
Here in Scotland 🏴 we keep our razers in it jimmy 😮
Yer never learrn Jock..
A Zippo fits perfectly.
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... 😃
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 🙄
The best use I've ever figured out for that little pocket. You get the pocket knife that has the metal stud to open it sometimes ambidextrous. Put it facing down inside your pocket and then pull up and forward away from you and it will open just like a switchblade🎉
Gotta love the handy "vape pocket"
Awesome video ❤ thank you for posting 😀
Before watching the video or reading anyone's comments, I want to put in my own guess.
I think it was used to hold spare coins. I had some jeans like that in the 70s and that is how I used that pocket. Quarters fit perfectly.
The small pocket in jeans, often called a "watch pocket," dates back to the 1800s. It was originally designed by Levi Strauss for cowboys and miners to hold a pocket watch securely. Back then, people commonly carried pocket watches, and the small, reinforced pocket was a practical solution to keep the watch safe from damage while working.
Over time, as pocket watches became less common, the little pocket remained as a stylistic feature and a vestige of the original design, even though it’s now mostly used for small items like coins or a key.
Nice copy of the content of this video.................
Good for holding an emergency rubber
The watch pocket is a pocket for a watch? Never would have guessed... I used to use them for tickets and stuff.
As a kid my teacher told me it was for a derringer pistol. I lived in the wonderful days of Gun Smoke, Bonanza, Big Valley, Rifleman so it made sense.
@@expendable001 Your teacher had a great imagination! A Derringer would be a little bit too big because it's bulkier than a pocket watch which are usually designed flatter and smoother.
For wired ear-buds for me. As noticed, guitar picks, too.
I didn't know it started as a watch pocket. I've always used it & thought of it as a change pocket. In fact, I wish it was more common in all pants 👖! My change always dives to the bottom of my pocket!
I've been using it for my EDC lately: A multitool and a small can with cigs and a lighter. Not part of my kit since I don't have any use for it, but the can while small can fit a disposable lighter and, instead of cigs (or less cigs at least), some tinder, maybe a needle and thread, a scalpel blade, or small enough stuff like that.
For anyone wondering about the can itself and its size, it was the package of a fiber optic-to-ethernet transceiver, big enough to fit two disposable lighters stacked, or like 3 AA batteries
My Zipoo fits perfectly in the ones on Wranglers.
Has been perfect for my house keys for decades.
Leatherman Holster for me. Fits perfect.
In Australia & I believe the UK pocket watches are referred to as fob watches so the small pocket is called the fob pocket & is used for holding coins.
Good for key fob too.
Here in Tombstone, I keep an 1884 silver dollar to show our tourists... minted in New Orleans from metal mined just a few steps from our main street. Fits just fine!
Loved it ! I always thought it was for holding one's change.
And here I am in my old blue jeans. Just checked my tiny front right pocket for any of these treasures. No luck.🥃😂👍🍺
When I was in my late teens to early 20s (many years ago) I kept a small pocket watch in my Levi 501 jeans but never found it to be very comfortable. So I switched to a change pocket for awhile but the pocket was too small for easy access and for over 40 years now that pocket has remained completely unused.
Some jeans, like Wranglers Riggs workwear have a 'watch pocket' large enough to fit a small CCW in.
This is pretty common knowledge to anyone born before 1990. It’s almost like saying “what’s that spoon shaped thing on the end of all the stems in your silverware drawer for?”
I use it for my guitar pick.
I keep a tiny multitool in there. also used it for guitar picks
Little pocket holding my speed strip + ignition key
Levi jeans were first made with a watch pocket in 1873 when Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented the original design of "waist overalls" which included a small pocket specifically intended to hold a pocket watch; this is considered the birth of blue jeans.
Perfect fit for my AirPods case.
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
My 'dumb' flip-phone fits perfectly in the little pocket of my Wrangler Jeans - just hope it doesn't go away or get any smaller!
In my young days, i kept my larger change (quarters and half dollars) in there. Dimes, nickles and pennies went into the big pocket. I never had a pocket watch.
The King of Queens says the small pocket is for chapstick.
When I woke up this morning, the thought of that "little extra pocket on my jeans" never occurred to me. Now, going to bed, I know something I never imagined I would want to know.
pocket watch was in vest pocket, dont believe me, try putting a pocket watch in that little pocket
Yes, most of the pocket watches that I've ever seen are too big for a Levis pocket.
@@MrAdopado thank you !
I have not worn jeans since 1999... that's a quarter of a century. Why I ditched jeans... the pockets could not cope with what I wanted to keep in my pockets. They always wound up with holes in the pockets before they were worn out otherwise.
It's for a pocket watch and I still use mine!
One thing you shouldn't keep in the pocket is kitchen matches. I used to when I smoked, until one day they rubbed together and lit. I managed to put them out before I got burned.
I patiently waiting for the pocket watch to come back into fashion.
Pocket watches. Watches were a lot bigger back in the day and they put little pockets in jeans overalls and other trousers. Men had a little keychain or fob to hold secure it to their clothing. When men wore vests (or waistcoats) they also had little pockets for watches. I have my grandfathers watch which was passed down. I had it cleaned but it keeps lousy time. It is pretty big. You can still buy pocket watches.
That’s the johnny pocket
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What is a johnny packet, please?
@@edie4321 it’s where you store a condom until it’s needed.
I keep my zippo in the little pocket.
Perfect fit for my Clipper and my Chronic 🔥🥦
Back in the 1960s, my grandfather told me it was a place to put my bus ticket.
I always knew it as a ''Ticket pocket'' here in the U.K. So for 63 years I've been wrong ! Seemed to make sense though - much easier to fish a ticket out of, than it being in the bottom of a large / deep pocket. Course, you don't see many tickets either these days! (Bus/cinema/train).
I use it for nothing. It is so badly positioned that any solid thing in there inevitably grates on my hip bone and makes certain positions (e.g. sitting) quite uncomfortable.
I keep my pills I’m going to need when I’m not at home in the watch 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 use mine for my house key, and after that I used it for my lip stick.