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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.

Images for kids

  • Jeans pocket back

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

  • Tacuinum Sanitatis-threshing

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

  • Woman's Pockets LACMA M.59.21.1a-b

    18th-century woman's hanging pocket

  • Patch pocket

    Patch pocket with pocket square

  • Patch pocket topstitching

    Patch pocket with topstitching

  • J patch pocket

    J patch pocket

  • Flap pocket

    Flap pocket

  • Buttoned flap box pleat pocket

    Buttoned-flap patch pocket with box pleat

  • Side seam pocket

    Sideseam pocket

  • Bound pocket

    Double-jetted pocket

  • Stand pocket

    Stand or single-welt pocket

  • EighteenthCenturyPocketsSwaledaleMuseumReethEngland

    18th century-style hanging pockets

  • Tailored flap pocket with labels

    Parts of a tailored pocket

See also

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