Pocket

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Jean Pocket

A pocket is a bag which is part of an item of clothing, reached through an opening in the clothing. The fabric of the clothing is shaped to make these little pouches or purses which are very handy for keeping small amounts of money and other small objects for daily use.

Pockets can be on pants, shirts, skirts, or dresses. Pockets come in very different styles, shapes, closed or unclosed with zippers or buttons. Some styles of clothing though, do not have pockets.

Origins and Early Uses: A Historical Linguistic Exploration

Pocket Media

• Patch pocket with topstitching and bar tacking on the back of a pair of blue jeans.

• Pockets hang from belts as 15th-century peasants thresh siligo wheat in a Tacuinum Sanitatis

• 18th-century woman's hanging pocket

• Patch pocket with pocket square

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  Patch pocket with topstitching

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  Diagram of a J patch pocket.

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  Diagram of flap pocket.

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  Buttoned-flap patch pocket with box pleat

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  Diagram of sideseam pocket.

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  "Smile" slit pocket with piping and arrowhead reinforcements, typical of Western wear