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Wait... Why Do We Do That?

Wait... Why Do We Do That?

Why Do Jeans Have That Tiny Pocket?

· 13 min · Season 1 Episode 17

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Have you ever looked at your jeans and wondered why there's a tiny pocket inside the front pocket? It's too small for your phone, practically useless for your wallet, and if you put a coin in there, good luck getting it out again. So why is it there? And why, after more than a century, are we still putting it on jeans? In this episode of Wait… Why Do We Do That?, Steve investigates the surprisingly fascinating history of that mysterious little pocket. We'll travel back to the nineteenth-centu...

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