h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Does ANYONE use the fifth pocket on their jeans? Most of mind are so small that I couldn't even get my fingertip in there, let alone a coin (which is what I always assumed they were for).

yes! - as happastance would have it; I just emptied mine, of all the coins, and threw the coincs into the copers and silver jars mind... maybe I've just got small hands/fingers

In the wild excessives of my youth, (as compared to the even wilder excesses of my non-youth), I used to call it the 'jonny pocket'... well... it was about the right size

Mind, talking of pockets not being big enough; on my Levi jeans, the back pockets are way too small; no where near deep enough to take a wallet in them properly.... ; about half to a inch, pokes out the top of the pocket, which is a bit worring and, I've noticed a trend, for the main side pockets, to get smaller and smaller (less deep anyhow), =- moreso on the more expensive jeans I have; and more noticly smaller on the female Levi jeans, compaired to the male ones

Apparently it was meant for your pocket watch. Though it does seem too small, assuming the size has not changed.

Hmmm... I'll try when William's here tomorrow, see if his pocket watch fits in my jeans 'fifth pocket' - mind, from memory pocket watches arn't necessarily a standard size; there was if I recall a larger sized 'group' of them, and then a lot which were on teh smaller side....

Very handy for a plectrum.

I would think some jeans fit too snugly for anything to be placed in the majority of the pockets without creating unsightly bulges, well anything more substantial than a handkerchief or a couple of coins...

Sorry, I didn't even *know* that jeans had a fifth pocket . For that matter, I only use the two front pockets in any pants that I wear.

I have always believed the fifth pocket was for your watch. I almost always carry my pocket watch while wearing a waistcoat, which provides a more convenient pocket.

Just put on a pair of jeans, pocket watch is a little tight going in, but fits in the fifth pocket perfectly.



paulh, the 'fifth' pocket is inside the top of the right front pocket, almost all jeans (blue, khaki or otherwise) have them.

F S

Here in Germany, they are even called "five pocket"to authenticate them as jeans, rather than trousers.

I also have several pairs of dress trousers that have a small 'watch pocket' sewn near the bottom end of the right front pocket. Sometimes my car keys slip in there and it takes a few extra minuets to extract them

F S

'In the wild excessives of my youth, (as compared to the even wilder excesses of my non-youth), I used to call it the 'jonny pocket'... well... it was about the right size '

Really 2legs? I used one of the large back pockets. Well... they were about the right size .

PP.

I am defeated!

" the 'fifth' pocket is inside the top of the right front pocket" [Florida Sailor]

It's not just jeans that have it. My slacks all have it, and when I fish in my pocket for quarters at the laundromat, half the quarters disappear into the fifth pocket . Then I have to poke around in it . Very inconvenient....

...the fifth pocket in a pair of blue jeans...

Just the place for all manner of small items that might otherwise end up lost and forgotten in the lint that accumulates in the bottom of the main pocket, from garden seeds to small seashells...

I use it for sweet wrappers, if there's no bin handy.

Oh, and this is perfect Edited Guide material. I hope someone's going to write it up.

Just the right size for a snuff box or tin

*tests this out* can't fit this tub of snus into it... not big enough err... Of course... if anyone asks... I've not got a tin of snus... not in the UK anyhow... that would be... naughty

I don't wear jeans, but I do often wear cargo trousers. As they're sealable and so much easier to access on car journeys than top pockets, I regularly keep keys, phone, wallet, sunglasses in them, and have also used them to carry 500ml bottles (ie Irn Bru, other 500ml drinks are available) camera, tickets, children's toys, wife's assorted things she's asked me to keep hold of and anything else I happen to have with me at the time.

Is that Icy volunteering I hear?

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Hmmm... I could so do with some trousers liek taht.... right now... to carry all this c**..... I have to lug about everywehre...