HelloThere

I enjoy my long black overcoat as it makes me look like I professional who knows what he is doing. It really is amazing, I mean, you all know me and I am no stand up professional but throw one of these bad boys on and alacazam, you inherit 40 thousand years of paternalism.

The one bad thing about these long black overcoats is that, when you have to get something in your right front pants pocket, you have to reach for the coat flap to expose your pants pocket and in so doing you commit a big gesture faux pas which is that you tell everyone with your gesture that you are reaching for your private parts.

The combination of the tall dark starkness of your awesome false persona that you have established by wearing the coat, and the rediculousness of a quick definitive gesture toward your private parts is pretty funny, but here is a way to avoid it.

Tie a string inside the coat that goes from the left hand pocket, around the back of the coat to the right coat flap in front, so when you have to open the coat flap you no longer have to reach with your right hand but can now surrepticiously reach your left hand into your coat pocket and then mysteriously, your right coat flap will open exposing your right pants pocket so that you can then self satisfyedly reach your right hand into your right pants pocket, remove what you need and then let the string go closing the curtain.

This technology can of course also be misused by flashers, thus the name.