Pick a pocket

Shirt pockets were essential gear for my grandfathers. John's were wool packed tight with a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. Eddie's pockets were chambray homes for a pencil, a pack of Beeman's gum and what-not. Herb's gabardine pockets would have been tidily buttoned shut with no contents to destroy the profile.


1947 Montgomery Ward Catalog. Flickr: Archival Clothing