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.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    26 days ago

    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.

    • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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      26 days ago

      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.