# Levis little pocket **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 7, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689 "2009-03-07T23:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/1 "2009-03-07T23:57:54Z")
Does anybody use that little sub-pocket on the right side of Levi denim jeans? I dont recall ever puting anything in there. I would hazard a guess that it is a watch pocket. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/2 "2009-03-08T00:03:53Z")
I always thought it was for coins. It’s too small for anything useful, really. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/3 "2009-03-08T00:06:10Z")
It’s just the right size for a Spyderco Cricket pocketknife, or loose change, or Pocket Fluff ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/4 "2009-03-08T00:16:06Z")
I’ve heard them called ‘condom pockets’. I don’t know anyone who kept one there, however. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/5 "2009-03-08T00:19:38Z")
> [@tattman40](#): > > Does anybody use that little sub-pocket on the right side of Levi denim jeans? I dont recall ever puting anything in there. I would hazard a guess that it is a watch pocket. That’s the Chaptstick and SEPTA token pocket ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/6 "2009-03-08T00:20:15Z")
Well I just put my cell phone in there and it fits perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/7 "2009-03-08T00:55:48Z")
I am also of the loose change persuasion, at least as far as that little pocket is concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/8 "2009-03-08T01:04:28Z")
My cellphone or keys, usually. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/9 "2009-03-08T01:06:37Z")
> [@](#): > > I would hazard a guess that it is a watch pocket. You guess correctly. > **[Vodpod – Video Editing Service for Creators](https://www.vodpod.com)** ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/10 "2009-03-08T01:16:47Z")
I do, for coins sometimes and sometimes for a pill or my vitamins. For instance, I’m rushing out of the house in the morning, and I don’t have time to take my vitamins right then, so I shove them into a little snack bag, and then into that little coin pocket. Cell phones? What kind of cell phone would fit into that teeny little pocket? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/11 "2009-03-08T01:30:38Z")
I have a [Motorazr2](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=captaincaveman&q=Motorazr2), and it fits in all of my watch pockets. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/12 "2009-03-08T03:20:55Z")
We used to call it the “coke pocket”. Now I use it to hold my prostate medication. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/13 "2009-03-08T03:41:16Z")
Zippo’s fit nice in there, but perhaps oddly my pocket watches do not (I’ve been led to believe that was the original purpose of them). Mostly use it for afternoon medications when I know I’ll be away from my regular haunts. I know I’m getting old because I have prescriptions for the stuff I now carry in there ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/14 "2009-03-08T04:10:06Z")
Never carried a watch there, but I have a cellphone or pocket knife. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/15 "2009-03-08T04:46:11Z")
My motorcycle keys are on a different ring from my car and other keys, and the watch pocket is a great place to put them so they don’t get lost easily. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/16 "2009-03-08T04:58:38Z")
I started a thread asking the same question six months ago. See [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=482944&highlight=pocket). Myself, I hide a 500-baht note in there if I’m out in the bars. On the off chance I get my wallet ripped off – which has only happened once in all my years, long ago – I can be assured of getting home okay. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/17 "2009-03-08T05:33:19Z")
Also it was presumably a good place to keep large and/or valuable coins, back when there were real silver half-dollars and dollars, not to mention gold coins before 1933. I would certainly rather carry a gold dollar or quarter eagle in a small pocket where it would sit securely, and not in a large pocket in which it would clank around with other coins and items, and perhaps get lost. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/18 "2009-03-08T06:46:33Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I have a [Motorazr2](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=captaincaveman&q=Motorazr2), and it fits in all of my watch pockets. I have a crazr (sp?) and it’s about the same size as the link you provided, less than half would fit into the little pocket in my jeans. Maybe my watch pocket is smaller than yours? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/19 "2009-03-08T08:03:29Z")
I always thought it was a coin pocket; that’s what I use it for. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689/20 "2009-03-08T08:17:10Z")
I used to put my cellphone in mine. Until I left it in there and the cellphone took a bath. My new phone’s too fat to fit in that pocket now anyways. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levis-little-pocket/488689.md?page=2)