Patent ID: 8505118

Claim:
A pocket comprising: a back panel of the pocket configured as at least a portion of a pair of pants; and a front panel of the pocket attached to the back panel to form the pocket on an external surface of the pants, the front panel: having one or more creases that form one or more bellows; and configured to expand and to maintain a positioning and a vertical alignment of a stripe stitched onto external surfaces of both the back panel and the front panel so that the vertical alignment of the stripe appears contiguous along a length of the stripe that extends over an outside of a leg of the pants from the front panel and across the back panel on the external surface of the pants in a direction that is perpendicular to an opening of the front panel, the stripe being one or more stripe pieces that are separate from the back panel and stitched along the length to the external surfaces of both the back panel and the front panel, the opening of the front panel comprising an expandable band that is configured to expand and substantially close the opening of the front panel against the back panel, the expandable band being biased to close the opening of the front panel against the back panel.