An inner jeans pocket holds a rock ’n’ roll secret

SIR – Gary Lambert (Letters, January 25) is correct – the small pocket in a pair of jeans is perfect for carrying a tenner, but any guitarist will tell you that its true purpose is to make sure you are never without a plectrum. Steven James

Flax Bourton, Somerset

SIR – How many times has Mr Lambert’s tenner been through the wash?

Andy Anderson

New Yatt, Oxfordshire

SIR – As a teenager in the 1960s, I carried a lighter in my inner jeans pocket (Letters, January 26) and a packet of cigarettes in the breast pocket of my matching jacket – perfectly concealed from parental view. Michael Price

Ashford, Middlesex

SIR – Am I showing my age if I disclose that I use my inner jeans pocket for storing my heart pills?

Jeff Rawlins

West Lavington, West Sussex

SIR – Shrinking jeans to fit (Letters, January 28) was a problem in New Zealand in the 1970s. People would go swimming in their jeans, which then shrank, making it impossible to swim back to shore. They often had to be rescued by the lifeguards.

Captain John Maioha Stewart Breisach, Baden-württemberg, Germany

SIR – While at School House, Malvern College, I was Jeremy Paxman’s fag. I well remember him lying in the bath in his Levi jeans, awaiting the perfect fit. Dr Steven R Hopkins

Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire

SIR – When I was 13, I spent my first week’s earnings on a pair of jeans. My mother was horrified. “If you wear those, people will think you’re a paper boy,” she said. When I pointed out that I was, she replied: “No, you’re a boy who happens to deliver papers – there’s a big difference.”

David J Powell

Ringwood, Hampshire

SIR – When jeans became fashionable, an old chap on our farm said: “It seems like everyone is dressed for work and nobody wants to go.” I think he was ahead of his time.

Jonathan Whittingham

Bomere Heath, Shropshire