Think Your Clothes Have Enough Pockets? Think Again

As men cart around more and more stuff—from smartphones to chargers to USB keys—their need for pockets has exploded. But has fashion overachieved this fall when it comes to storage?

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IN 1901, Levi’s gave its famous 501 jean its famous fifth pocket. It wasn’t, as many assume, the teensy pocketwatch slot above the right front pocket—that had been there since the jean’s beginnings in 1879—but rather the back left pocket. That unassuming addition granted generations of men (and eventually women) double the rear-end real...