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                                             September 29, 2013
  In my standard outfit,
  I have many pockets...

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  In my non-standard outfits,
  this is often not the case:

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  The solution I gravitated towards over the
  years was to wear an under-the-armpit              I found one of these
  shoulder holster with a few pockets in it.         in a fire remnant
                                                     store in Pocatello
                                                     Idaho circa 1982...
     More recently, I purchased an                   I have it still, but
     expensive but well-made variation               it's getting rather
     of this from "Five and Diamond":                worn after many a
     dark maroon and black with                      trip to burning man
     steampunk highlights.                           and such.

                                                         (I worry a little
  For one of my Halloween costumes                       about wearing this
  (Anubis) I tended to use a black sheet                 in public-- the last
  as a toga, which didn't go well with                   thing I need is a
  the shoulder holsters.                                 cop thinking I've
                                                         got a gun under my
  I took an old pair of combat pants                     arm.)
  and hacked away everything but the
  waist band, and the pockets on one
  side of the leg, leaving a piece of
  pants leg to keep them from banging
  around: my black toga would hang          A long-standing idea with me
  down and hide it: it provided             is to make something like
  a lot of cargo space in an outfit         this out of leather (or the
  that at a glance looked like it had       equivalent).
  none.
                                            The typical "waist belt" is
                                            ridiculous: a bulging tumor
                                            on your side that doesn't
                                            actually carry all that much.
      During set-up at Burning Man,
      I was wearing this exposed in             Why not a western gun belt
      plain sight, just to have                 style that hangs flat against
      something that would let me               the side of your leg, with
      carry a few tools without                 a strap along the inside to
      overheating while I was                   hold it down?
      working.
                                                     Every now and then
      It was surprisingly popular,                   some place like Five
      despite what I would've thought                and Diamond will
      was a pretty ridiculous appearence:            come up with
      shaggy, cutoff edges, a faded                  something *like*
      beat-up black fabric...                        what I have in
                                                     mind, without quite
                                                     getting there.






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