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.
A copy of Mao's little red book, it's easily accessible and can be pulled out to smite liberals.
Doubling down on this, I saw it being used for that purpose today
Naw, you're supposed to hold your pack of smokes in your rolled up shirtsleeve
It's because we have resorted to using worse fabric, so the shirt doesn't retain tension as well
Yeah I thrift shop a lot and oftentimes the old clothes I find last much longer than anything I've bought new.
It is also the factual truth. They use less cloth to make shit now. They spin the threads thinner and thinner. That workwear guy has a series of articles about it.
https://dieworkwear.com/
He's got some classist vibes, but is otherwise pretty decent and I like the writing style.Edit: I went to read some of his articles and I take the classism thing back. He's actually pretty cool. Here's a video going thru it and also dunks on Jordan Petersons suits
I don't agree with him about everything, but hey that's nuance for ya
You need a tight fitting short sleeve undershirt made from cotton or wool
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.
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?
Makes it easier to tell the back from the front, aesthetic purposes, and then baby likes to collect wood chips and stuff - in that order
For cool truck drivers, Cigarette. For nerds, a calculator. #18wheelsmovetheworld
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.
its true I keep my xros 3 in there diagonally and it fits perfect. when I put the little pocket flap down you can't even tell its there
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.https://youtu.be/E0ZpQADBsEo
So you can drop your phone in the toilet when you bend 90 degrees to flush
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I work in the woods. I keep pens, a compass, a roll of flagging, and ear plugs in those pockets.
I put my sunglasses in it (lenses in, one of the ear pieces out). It feels nicer than on top of my head or on my collar.
i put my earphones i nthere when im not using them
