On a men's jacket, there are always side pockets on the hips.
Most often, they have a small flap, we also say a tab, framed by two thin fabric lips, the piping.
Generally horizontal, these pockets are sometimes inclined and rising.
Choosing either variant is a matter of style and personal taste.
The invention of the short jacket at the end of the Victorian era was already accompanied by horizontal pockets, of very varied shapes and sizes.
For the practice of the horse, the tailors developed around the First World War new pockets, at an angle, arranged rather high.
Thus dressed, the rider has more allure.
A whole ceremony of taking measurements is done with the client astride a wooden horse, an object that has remained in some
fitting rooms
of Savile Row.
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