Men’s slacks also often have shallow, slanted pockets that cause loose change to fall out when you sit down. But that problem is easily solved by putting your change into a small, flat leather coin purse. The leather grips the pocket lining enough to keep it from falling out.
I don’t carry a man-purse. I wear cargo pants so that I have enough pockets for the essential stuff (wallet, coin purse, keys, smart phone, Swiss Army knife). And I carry a backpack to and from work. The backpack is primarily for my laptop, my lunch, and any work-related papers that I’m carrying, but it has numerous smaller pockets that I use for stuff that I like to keep handy but doesn’t have to be on my person (USB flash drive, digital camera, credit card case, checkbook). My MP3 player, which is fairly bulky (it’s a 30GB Zune), migrates between a pants pocket and the backpack, depending on how much I am using it that day.
Cargo pants are important not because they have a greater total pocket volume (although that is certainly a good thing), but because they let me separate items into different pockets. My Zune and smart phone both have screens that could be scratched, so I don’t want them sharing a pocket with my keys or my knife.
My wallet contains only the cards I absolutely have to have with me: driver’s license, debit card, Blue Cross/Blue Shield card, AAA membership card, that sort of thing. All other cards are in the credit card case in my backpack.
