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He’s reinvented the knife pocket in carpenter jeans. There’s also usually a loop nearby for hanging a hammer so you don’t have to walk around with your tool bags.

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Particularly when climbing ladders. Anyone who’s ever gone up a ladder and felt like they needed a third hand for carrying crap has experienced why the hammer loop exists. Plus securing it when you’re up there so your dumb ass doesn’t knock it on someone’s head :-)

Pretty much but I should point out that you can’t easily find carpenter pants anymore. And I view the gamer loop as about as useful as the coin pocket: purely decorative in nature.

I carry a filled Zippo everywhere I go (although I don't smoke - it's for lighting others' cigarettes). It fits perfectly in the coin pocket on a pair of raw Japanese jeans, where it will produce a fade[0] unique to the lighter and its wearer.

[0]: https://www.heddels.com/2019/04/fade-day-unbranded-ub421-14-...

> I carry a filled Zippo... for lighting others' cigarettes

That seems a bit of an odd thing to carry; how often do you use it?

Before covid-19, pretty frequently. For instance, I once noticed that the end of my shoelace broke off. If you want to prevent continued fraying, you can use a lighter to melt the end of the lace. Besides that it's a well-designed, classic looking, functional tool that I enjoy handling.

I live in New York, where smoking is more common, and I've found an abundance of social situations that become available when a stranger needs a light.

Does that actually work as well as an actual aglet?

I never used a coin pocket in my life until I got a car with proximity entry & ignition. Now I wish I didn't buy these shorts that lack coin pockets.

I've found some coin pockets to be the right size and shape to securely carry a single ID or credit card or hotel room key in times where you don't need or want to carry a full wallet. I've seen coin pockets rebranded "golf pockets" for similar reason that golfers find them useful for scorecards and maybe a pencil.

It's easy enough to find carpenter pants.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/apparel-and-safet...

> And I view the gamer loop as about as useful as the coin pocket: purely decorative in nature.

I use the coin pocket extensively: for coins, medicine, chewing gum etc.

What medication are you able to fit in a coin pocket? Everything I've ever taken is either bottled, in a large blister pack, or I need more than I could reasonably fit inside that tiny pocket

Not OP, but my medication's blister pack is perforated so I can break off one pill.

Not op but:

Lactase

Also AirPods

blister packs are fine as long as they aren't too big (or can be cut with scissors). :-)

Fine also for keychain-sized multitools, in my experience.

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