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Pockets of different types have appeared at different places on trousers. Fashion designer Hardy Amies wrote, "God gave us no towns; nor did He give us pockets. We can therefore place them where they are most convinient to us. The first pockets appearing in the early 19th Century were cross pockets, cut parallet with the waist. This style was conviniet when riding. As not all men wearing trousers did so on horses, eventually pockets were placed at the thighs, coupled with hip pockets at the rear. Neither of these pockets would have been easy to access while on horseback. Tighter cut trousers became fashionable in the 1860s. These trousers were generaly made with cross pockets, "frog mouthed" for ease of access. Cross pockets can not, however, be made with pleated fronts. The only remaining cross pockets on modern trousers are generally the "ticket" pocket cut into the waist. Well tailored trousers have the material taken far enough into the pockes so that the pocket lining does not show when sitting down. Pockets that gape open when standing, the trousers are cut too tightly across the rear. Our information on pockets is limited because we rely heavily on photographic portraits and often we can not make out the trouser pockets. One portrait where we do see the pockets is Percy Brown, an American boy in 1891. The knee pants he wore with his sailor suit had two front pockets.