Fantastic Mr. Fox: a good pocket, a good tool, a good friend. With the launch of The Best Made Pocket axe I’ve had pockets on the brain lately. Like most men I use mine constantly: to put my hands in, and to carry my wallet, coins, keys, and Japanese carpenter’s pocket knife. I wear a jacket every chance I get, only because it provides me more pockets: for iphone, notebook, camera, business cards, and pens. When it gets too hot (like today in New York) then I resort to my Jack Spade satchel. There’s not a lot of information available on the history of pockets. This article at the BBC seems to be the best. When it comes to women’s fashion I know Diana Vreeland, the great Harper’s fashion editor and tastemaker, was a big advocate of pockets in women’s dresses and because of that I’m sure she sent chills up the spines of the purse makers of the time.   I’m not sure if the same chills were felt by the sporran makers of the time: thank god I’ve yet to see pockets on a kilt, in part due to a little known invention called a “sporran”- one of the earliest known pockets: a pouch worn on the front of a kilt to carry coins, a wallet, and and other “personal” gear. No- a sporran is not a purse, at least you better not propose that to my father seen above in his Buchanan kilt with decrepit fox head sporran which he recently retired. The fox, the kilt, and Jock were a trifecta at special occasions and family functions. We’re sad to see the beady-eyed fella go.-PBS
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: a good pocket, a good tool, a good friend.

With the launch of The Best Made Pocket axe I’ve had pockets on the brain lately. Like most men I use mine constantly: to put my hands in, and to carry my wallet, coins, keys, and Japanese carpenter’s pocket knife. I wear a jacket every chance I get, only because it provides me more pockets: for iphone, notebook, camera, business cards, and pens. When it gets too hot (like today in New York) then I resort to my Jack Spade satchel.

There’s not a lot of information available on the history of pockets. This article at the BBC seems to be the best. When it comes to women’s fashion I know Diana Vreeland, the great Harper’s fashion editor and tastemaker, was a big advocate of pockets in women’s dresses and because of that I’m sure she sent chills up the spines of the purse makers of the time.  

I’m not sure if the same chills were felt by the sporran makers of the time: thank god I’ve yet to see pockets on a kilt, in part due to a little known invention called a “sporran”- one of the earliest known pockets: a pouch worn on the front of a kilt to carry coins, a wallet, and and other “personal” gear. No- a sporran is not a purse, at least you better not propose that to my father seen above in his Buchanan kilt with decrepit fox head sporran which he recently retired. The fox, the kilt, and Jock were a trifecta at special occasions and family functions. We’re sad to see the beady-eyed fella go.-PBS

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