Your denims finally get the much needed sixth pocket for smartphones

Sonal Vats

Necessity is the mother of all invention. But sometimes necessity takes time to be realised as one and then worked upon. Scratching your head, Huh! We have been using smartphones for over a decade and if we take into account the mobile phones in general (including the gigantic first prototypes) that becomes almost two decades but ironically the denim companies felt the need for a convenient place/pocket to hold this essential modern necessity only this year.

Japanese retail company Muji has created a pair of jeans with an additional sixth pocket at the back to hold our ever widening smartphones. The special pocket sits just higher than the normal rear pocket located on the right on most pairs of jeans. “It’s placed purposely off centred,” Muji said of the design, “so you don’t have to worry about ever sitting on it.

But, why so late Muji and all you other denim makers? But it's Ok; Better late than never. Even we are late in reporting this news as the jeans debuted in January, but you surely deserved the acknowledgement.

Back in the 1800s, Levis introduced a small pocket for cowboys who used to wear their watches on chains and kept them in their waistcoats. To prevent the watches from getting broken,  a fifth pocket was designed into the comfy clothing that works as the coin pocket these days to house your metallic currency. And now, we have the Sixth one, all for our beloved, precious smartphone. Well, the new pocket will also prevent our phones from coin and key scratches.

But it isn't as hunky-dory as it appears. The 'much thought' over pocket height with phone's camera rearing out also leaves you vulnerable to pickpockets who can easily walk by with your phone.

But, yeah, this is just the beginning. Even the first iPhone wasn't an eye candy. Let's hope other makers will take their cues rightly and come with something better and bigger and of course with right coordinates (Pun unintended).