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No excuse for badly designed kit

Pockets were first seen 500 years ago on men’s waistcoats. Before then, those in polite society wore either pocketless pantaloons or dresses, and kept their house keys and mobile phones in little bags strung about their waists. Indeed, the bum-bag can be traced back to medieval France, known as it was as le fanny paquet.

Now, I’d wager kangaroos and koalas would have something to say about the intellectual property rights of the pocket, but what isn’t in dispute is how insanely

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