Is it supposed to make it easier to slip the ball inside and take it out or something? The only way I can visualise that working is that the upside-down-not-a-pocket is tight enough to hold the ball in place but loose enough to put a ball in and out.
I have never played tennis in my life and I’m not an expert on balls in any sense of the word.
I don’t know anything about tennis, but is there perhaps something similar to a fanny pack that you could strap on to carry your balls? A small backpack perhaps?
My $15 LG flip phone fits quite nicely in my shirt pocket, thank you.
Am I the only one who laments the loss of cheap fake Chuck Taylor-style sneakers? I have worn them off and on since first grade. It seems the parent company sued all the knock-off companies for trademark infringement and won. Wankers. No, I’m not going to bother to buy any real ones, since the $50 Converse ones really aren’t $38 better than the $12 knock-offs.
This thread reminded me of a reverse gripe my bunch used to have… NO pockets on sweatpants. I get it. So many people started wearing them around the clock everywhere, that adding pockets was a necessity for your keys and wallet and whatever else when you were going anywhere. But for those of us who only need the damn things to lounge around the house? The only solution is to sew what you’ve got shut to prevent them from being so bulky. Otherwise, it’s like sporting a giant, sweaty diaper.
The server gets two chances to serve, so if the first serve doesn’t work out, another ball is there at the ready for the second serve.
If they can put pockets in wedding dresses, surely they can leave them in tennis dresses.
Gigi is correct. Balls come three to a can, typically, so in a match you have three balls to play with. Most people round them all up after every point and the usual or normal thing is for the person serving that game to hold two or all of them. Also common is for the server to have to and the receiver to hold one, which can be hit over to the server if necessarily instead of chasing down a ball between the first serve and the second serve.
Disposable Hero, the pocket in the undershorts is a ball-shaped upside down pocket with something stretchy at the opening. The shorts are not particularly slippery and you see a lot of women with the skirt tucked up on the ball side because a piece of it went into the pocket with the ball. It is awkward.
Now the reason I think I’m alone in this is, there is no choice. Nowadays ALL the skirts are pocketless. They are made out of light, flowy fabrics, and the seams are in strange places (if I were sewing, I would put a pocket in the seam).
Of the old ones I have, ALL of them had pockets. And one point here is that if you didn’t want to use the pockets, like maybe you thought it would make your hips look big if there was a ball in the pocket, no one’s gonna make you. It’s not like sweatpants where the pockets added bulk. Most of them were so well cut you couldn’t really even tell if a person had a ball in her pocket or not.
It is frustrating. I did mention that there was a hip sling thing I saw that could work. But I’d really rather just have the pocket and not have to add another item. The idea of playing tennis while wearing a backpack just makes me tired. That wouldn’t work at all. Not because of the weight, because it would interfere with all the strokes.
elbows, did you mean a patch pocket? Because I’ve thought maybe I should do that. It’s not as great a solution as having a set-in pocket that comes with the dress (that I just spent $50 for) but it could work. I really think I’d need a seam to put an inset pocket in, and in both the skirts I have recently bought, these cretins have put the seam at the back (where I don’t want a pocket) rather than the side. (And it’s very flimsy/silky material, too. Lightweight, cool, and quick drying, but flimsy.)
See a home sewer, show her your shorts, bring a tennis ball for size. She’ll come up with something that can suit your needs, I’m pretty certain. It may be a pocket configuration you haven’t imagined. It would be a simple enough job for a home sewer, an easy fix I expect. You should check it out!
(also a seam is not always required for an inset pocket, there are many configurations possible!)
Good Luck!
See http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2204893/ But be warned the pocket sizes aren’t uniform.
Half the time, dress pants with pockets are not well-made, so the pockets don’t lie flat. They stick out, which drives me mental. I’ve been known to sew the damn things shut if they can’t be altered to lie flat.
And I carry an inhaler in addition to a tissue/key/pen, so I like pockets generally.
Tennis fashonistas, heed the calls!
Your standard of design surely galls!
For the ladies of the sport,
Those divas of the court
Must have shorts with pockets for their balls!
Feel free to use this on your protest signs.
But I don’t want pockets.
Couldn’t some of us have small American flags, instead?
Am I the only young-ish man who wants a new car with:
No screens beyond the simple LED/LCD stuff
No electrically powered accessories
No automatic transmission
Pretty much this ↑↑↑ … But …
I want power windshield washers, defroster, fans…
Robust levers foir heater and A/C air & temp control.
Power & crank both on the rear window because I want a rear hatch.
Power mirrors that can be set manually when the power dies in 10 years or so.
Bench seats
Other stuff 
That’s a watch pocket. Not many people carry pocket watches anymore. It is a small and fairly useless pocket, but it is a real pocket.
They sew them shut to maintain the shape of the jacket in production, but there is a real pocket in there that you can access by cutting the stitches.
I won’t say that I’ve never had a literal hole in my pockets, but I’ve owned a lot of pairs of pants over the years. I’ve probably had 2-3 pocket failures, ever.
Yes.
The stitchery that closes those pockets is very obviously half-assed (“basting” in the argot) and is intended to be removed by the consumer. The thread is a matching color to the fabric so it usually take a real bright light to see it well. But once you start to cut it you’ll find it pulls apart easily.
I used to eat through pockets in cheap pants. Then I stopped carrying a ring with 30 keys, a 4 oz pocket knife and $5 in change. Suddenly my pockets last longer than the pants do.
I know you (Jake) know all this. I’m adding my 2 cents for poor igor.
A hearty vote for bench seats in cars! I’m hanging onto my 2003 model until they return.
I found the extra ball in my shorts distracting so I learned to hold both balls in my hand for the service toss. If the first serve goes in you just flick the other to the back fence. You should be holding the ball for the toss in your thumb and two fingers anyway, just use your ring, pinky, and palm to hold the other one through the serve motion.
Pockets are my number one criteria for my leisure clothes, because I live in a condo and need to take the dogs out semi-frequently to, as they say, do their business. I want somewhere to keep my keys and poopy bags so I’m unemcumbered in case of an emergency (i.e. coyote attack, one of my dog’s takes a strong dislike to another dog strolling by, etc.).
No offense, but you have some things wrong. The small jeans pocket chances to be something that I saw a program about recently, because someone was investigating it’s history. Many people do think it was for a pocket watch, but even in early examples, the pocket was not large enough for a watch, and it’s location was such that anyone on a horse would not be able to retrieve it.
My objection to the sewn shut suit pockets is that the reason they HAVE to sew them shut, is because the suits are so poorly designed and constructed that if they don’t, the pockets will sag in an ugly way even before anyone tries to use them.
Basically I like functional pockets, and I get annoyed with all purely decorative ones.
If I am not supposed to actually USE a pocket, don’t put the damn thing on there to begin with.
I went to a more upper crust than usual suit store once (once!) in hopes of finding better constructed suits at the vastly higher prices, but when I asked what suits had genuinely functional pockets in them, I was snooted at, and ignored by the entire store personnel.
Such is my life. I am REQUIRED by my employer to wear a suit, AND to do things which require the suit pockets to be functional. I know most people buy suits so that they look wealthier than they really are on Sunday and whenever rich people are around, so they don’t wear them out nearly as fast as I do.
I suppose a fair number of my gripes, could be directed at our culture which does seem to demand a lot of illogical things from us all on a daily basis.
The more pockets I have, the more stuff I lose in them, or forget which pocket they are in. I’ve gotta compromise somewhere.
Ever have an old coat you haven’t worn for years, then you take it out of the closet and discover money in a pocket? I consider that a savings account.