Pockets on shirts fall out of style

It is a question as much for men with sartorial concerns as it is for those with purely practical worries. But shoppers are finding it increasingly difficult to buy shirts with a breast pocket.

Tailors say such a luxury ruins the line of a shirt. As a result, high street stores are selling fewer of them.



John Wales, 70, a retired doctor from Appleton Roebuck, north Yorks, who is outraged that it is increasingly difficult to buy a shirt with a pocket, said: “When you get to a certain age, you want comfort rather than fashion. Where are men supposed to put things?”

Adam Barton, of Marks & Spencer, said 90 per cent of the shirts it sold 10 years ago had pockets, compared to 25 per cent this year.