Skipped church again. Naturally.
Yes, mates, instead of going to church I was re-stringing my guitar. I think I'll call her Cortana.
But instead of chattering about reasons why I did not attend the Sunday service yet again, I think I'd be better off writing about pockets and how they came to be.
Pockets are (usually) small, empty spaces incorporated into a piece of clothing, and is used for keeping things we are too lazy to carry with our hands. A pocket might have one or more buttons or a line of zipper or perhaps strings to alter the size of its opening. Other methods have been used, but the ones mentioned above are among the most popular kinds.
There are several theories as to how these additions to garments evolved (it is highly unlikely that the first clothes-makers already have that pressing need to carry trinkets without their hands which is very much present in today's life).
First, it was theorized that an early garment-wearer discovered a tear in his/her clothing, then, through an unfortunately misguided attempt of mending said tear, accidentally made a rudimentary pocket. As with most new innovations, this generated a lot of ridicule and mockery among the mender's peers, which only stopped after the mender demonstrated a significant increase in foraging returns.
Another theory was that pouches or bags are originally the conventional tool used for keeping things in. Then one day, a clever (or bored) innovator had the brilliant notion along the lines of 'I'll just stitch this pouch on to my loincloth, let's see where that leads', which leads to roughly the same amount of jeering received by the mender in the previous theory.
A third theory stated that a person saw the need of carrying things without using hands, thought about it for a while, and came up with pockets as the solution.
The third is the theory upon which the least number of hit movies was based, meaning that it's probably the most accurate.
I haven't used a rotary phone in quite a long time, if that helps.
