Pockets Sewn Shut In New Garments - What should you do? When you need pockets, how to unpick or add pockets.
Pockets sewn shut are not a new idea. Whenever I look at pockets sewn shut, I think of the way they were sewn shut at the turn of the century - not this century, the last one, the year 1900. Pockets were sewn shut on the uniforms given for free to the children at the Jewish Free school in the East End of London. That school, which most of us have now forgotten, was then not only the largest school in London, but also in the UK, and the largest school in Europe, with more than a thousand pupils. Why were the pockets sewn shut? The whole of London had been shocked by Dickens story of Oliver Twist and the child pickpockets. So the sewn pockets had a dual purpose. Not so much that nobody had pockets which could be picked, More that the Jewish children would not slouch. The Rothschilds funded the school to give all the poor Jewish children an education, leading to gainful employment and respectability. (I discovered this when researching my novel.) Nowadays there are other reason...