On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:16:59 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:01:04 +0000 (UTC),
(Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

I just spent 2 hours sewing a new pocket into my suit trousers.
Very pleased with the result, and it's _much_ better than the one
I had done by the dry cleaners a few years ago, which took me
longer to repair afterwards than it's just taken me to do the
whole thing myself.

It's strangely satisfying, repairing something and what's even better
is adding extra pockets to hold lenses, photo kit and other bits and
bobs.

I do my own clothes repairs but also I have added the occasional
inside pocket to pairs of trousers. I work on the basis that if I
can't reach into my pocket with my own hands then neither can anyone
else with theirs. A fairly essential strategy in some parts of the
world[1] unfortunately.

Nick
[1]Although there have only been two occasions when I have been
successfully pickpocketed, one of those was in a bustling market in
Cochabamba, Bolivia and the other was in the checkout queue in Tesco,
Huddersfield. So maybe I ought to wear those trousers in the UK too.