Stop the men’s pants madness! (Or, a pocket full of problems)

Please, men’s pants manufacturers.

I beg of you. Don’t go changing, to try to please me (props to Billy Joel.)

I bought some new pants a few weeks back. No doubt due to the technology advances of the day, and the need to carry smartphones but not want them scratched by keys or something = they have put a DIVIDER in the bottom of the pocket.

Um, no. No thanks.

So now, my keys end up straddling the divider, and of course the change is in one when I need it from the other, so out come the keys and the smartphone and change to get to the buried treasure.

Life was simpler back when a pocket was just a pocket. One pocket, indivisible, for convenience and pleasantry for all.

If I wanted to have 15 compartments, I’d carry a purse, as women do — I can only imagine the frustration THEY feel trying to find what’s where. Unless they are more organized than I am.

I’m not about to become a backpack or fanny pack kind of guy. (Though I do use a duffel bag of sorts that my boss provided years ago from a convention in Vegas. I use just the main compartment, and occasionally futz with the zippers I ignore.

So once again, in an area far removed from technology, technology invades, and makes something simple… not.

I used to just have to see if a pair of pants fit, had a pleasing texture, weren’t too thin a fabric or stiff, right hem length etc.

Now I have to pick a pair of pants precisely to peruse the perfect pocket placement?

Pshaw.

UPDATE: I just remembered (ya get older, you just remember a lot of stuff later;-) that these other new pants of me also have a 2-pocket pocket, but it’s the full pocket, from top to bottom. That’s better, BUT still a problem in that they are so narrow, keys get wedged in there — I don’t have that many – and again everything has to come out, tissues etc. flying, to get out the keys or such. We may be in a Golden Age of Experimentation and Innovation when it comes to pants pockets. But like so many things, I yearn for the good ol’, simpler days. Not all the good ol’ days thought – the Nehru jackets and flared jeans can stay back in the past;-)