New snow pants

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I have no idea who designed this thing. Normal pants have pockets on the sides. This one has pocket between the crotch and the sides in a way that when you put something in, the item falls to the crotch area. Imagine, you go to skiing to tubing in nighttime and you keep a cellphone or a pocketlight in your pants and it sticks out there. That's... Urg. I understand that it's to avoid the uncomfort of having something hard hurting the wearer's sides when doing a S turn down a double diamond or something, but it's not that much better when the hard thing is in the crotch. Can't the pockets be on the front of the thighs?

I like the rest of the pants though, so I'll just keep them and not use the pockets.