I prefer pockets (tom baker stylee....bigger on the inside),but get so much grief from females about it, that I end up using a manbag from time to time.....for which they give me grief.
HOW DARE they hand out shit cos I wanna keep all sorts of tools and bits of broken kit on me...THEY wont leave the house without enough gob chemicals and hair glue to poison a continent, and if they get a car it turns into a GIANT handbag on wheels.....but if I produce the MIDI-I/O board from a Casio CZ3000 synth while looking for my keys, or a PC soundcard while getting my wallet to pay for dinner.....I'M A WEIRDO?????????
FFS
I will concede, that having a supply of bus tickets capable of being used to trace recent developemts in printing technology is a mis-use of pocket space.
BTW...twice I have been let in to clubs, unsearched, by beginning to empty my pockets, after their hands/tray is too full, bouncers give up....but if you try it, please, for tradition's sake.....look the guy right in the eye and say, in your best Tom Baker voice...."this may take some time" before starting.