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11-16-2008, 11:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Jacket/Blazer Pockets
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Why are blazer pockets and pockets on coats sewn shut?
Are you supposed to cut them open? If so, why sew them shut?
What's considered proper?
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11-16-2008, 11:55 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | I think the idea is that for most people those pockets are strictly decorative, and they prefer that the flaps look nice and crisp and tidy; but then for those who actually need the pockets, the option is there to cut them open. I think it's a dumb system, but what can you do. |
11-17-2008, 12:01 AM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I think that suit jackets/blazers in general are dumb. There are few times I've ever felt anything less than overdressed in my motorhead t-shirt.
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11-17-2008, 12:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
This is news to me.
On the other hand, Snickers work clothes, T-shirts and jeans are about the only pieces of outer layer clothing I wear  .
I know a certain situation where the pockets should be sewed shut: SINGERS JEANS. Good grief it looks horrible when someone is the center of the attention and plays pocket pool. Fortunately we don't have that particular problem anymore  .
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11-17-2008, 05:29 AM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | Wait, so there really are pockets in there? I never thought of cutting them open. I figured they were purely decorative. |
11-17-2008, 05:58 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | The lines of the jacket look better without a bunch of keys bulging in the pockets.
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11-17-2008, 05:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: U.K. | | | They're sewn shut so that people don't stretch them out by stuffing their hands in them when trying them on or sticking cr@p in them. It also helps the jacket sit on the body better as there are no gaping holes to hang open.
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11-17-2008, 06:18 AM
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11-17-2008, 06:20 AM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezbass  They're sewn shut so that people don't stretch them out by stuffing their hands in them when trying them on or sticking cr@p in them. It also helps the jacket sit on the body better as there are no gaping holes to hang open. | I hate it when I have gaping holes. |
11-17-2008, 05:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | When I go buy suits, they usually ask me whether I want them open or closed. I have them closed, anything I want to carry in the jacket goes in the inside pocket.
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