Fig. 18.—Side tabs and buttons at the back (after Racinet).
It is worth while to consider side-pockets, which in their turn are remnants of lateral openings which were made in coats at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the following centuries. The sword-handle conveniently protruded through the left-hand slit, which, like its fellow, ran from the waist to the lower margin of the coat or stopped half-way. (See Figures [18] and [19].) In the latter case, the arrangement very much resembles the vertical pocket which has become common again of recent years. (See Figure [20].)
Fig. 19.—A coat worn at the end of the seventeenth-century
(after H. Bonnart).
Fig. 20.—A modern coat with side pockets.