Editor's Note: This is your eight known stopped pick-pocket in the USA. Amazingly, Bryan W. from Fair Oaks, California, stopped pick-pocket #216 a year earlier at the SAME festival! Read his earlier testimonial here. This makes him one a select few travelers who have stopped multiple pick-pockets while wearing Pick-Pocket Proof Apparel. Bryan was wearing a pair of our Adventure Traveler Pants with the attachable "water" bottle pocket. This is the first known stopped pick-pocket by someone using the bottle pocket with the pants. This add-on design allows you to fully cover the front pockets which provides another layer of defense between your wallet and the world. You can find the bottle pockets in our accessories section. We received his second testimonial via a Facebook comment.

------ Bryan followed Up With His Second Stopped Pick-Pocket Testimonail A Few Months Later -----

Editor's Note: This is your first stop in Florida and your 6th and 7th known stopped pick-pocket in the States. Andre L. from Boca Raton, Florida, sent in his testimionial via a Facebook comment.

Editor's Note: This is your first stopped pick-pocket in international waters! Howard has been wearing his Pick-Pocket Proof Pants since 2021.

Dear Clothing Arts,

My wife and I took a recent cruise on Royal Caribbean from Miami to Barcelona. I wore my four pair of pick pocket proof pants and shirt all the time. During our 12 days at sea, I won the Blackjack tournament. After cashing the winning, I put the cash in the left front inside zip pocket, zipped it, then zipped and buttoned the outside.

My wife and I got on the elevator to go to the 14th deck from the 3rd deck. I felt someone bump my left side in a crowded elevator, but not sure who it was. Felt a slight tug on the left front zipper, but it only opened to the button tab. On the next floor, several people got out. It was one of them or more working together. Anyway, the pants are credited with this save.

After we arrived in Barcelona, we flew to Paris and did all the touristy things. We were warned about pickpockets, but I wore my four pair changing every other day. I kept all zippers zipped and all buttons buttoned. No issues and no attempts, they move on to softer targets.

Photo of Blackjack tournament win below.

Howard R. from Davie, Florida

Editor's Note: This testimonial came to use via a facebook comment and this is your first stop in Cuba... that we know about!!

Editor's Note: This is your 3rd stopped pick-pocket in Mexico. Adam's testimonial came via a ***** Review for his Adventure Traveler Pants.

Editor's Note:  This is your fifth known stopped pick-pocket in the US. We received the testimonial via a Facebook comment. Bryan W. is from Fair Oaks, California, and was wearing a pair of our Adventure Traveler Pants.

------ We followed up with Bryan and here is how it happend ------

Editor's Note: The Clothing Arts Team would like to take a moment to thank everyone who selects to see the world with our secure pockets. A decade ago, our founder had a run-in with a team of pick-pockets and decided to do something about it. Today, we are proud to celebrate your 200th stopped pick-pocket. Simply amazing!! This is your fourth known stopped pick-pocket here in the US.

Dear Clothing Arts

Pickpockets were out in force in New Orleans during the recent NCAA Final Four. I wore your pants, with my iPhone, wallet, and cash behind velcro, zippers, and button tabs, and didn't lose a thing. Not for lack of their trying.  

I felt my pockets brushed and bumped several times in the crowds in the Superdome, and in the throngs going to and from. One particularly obvious miscreant was working the trolley car stops on Canal Street. I tried to board several cars in a row, stepping up to ask the driver if they went to the riverfront. Each time, a stubby little man wearing Kansas gear crowded up to my left side as I stepped up, and held a warmup jacket next to my side, covering my pockets. I held my hand down on that side, and finally swatted his arm away and told him to go away and work on his technique.

Without your pants, I very likely could have been missing an iPhone. Stairs may be a particularly vulnerable spot for having your front pockets picked; they open up as you step up. But not with your zippers and button tabs.

- Charlie W. from North Carolina

Editor's Note: This is your second known stopped pick-pocket attempt in Mexico, and your second stop in Playa Del Carmen.

Dear Clothing Arts,

I have been targeted by an older guy in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The scam is he sprays a brownish substance on your back, shorts, and legs. He then claims it is bird poop. (Believe me you don't feel a thing when he does this) As he "helps" you to clean it off with some tissues he robs you in the process.

His female accomplice pulls the same scam on the ladies. They clean you out. Wallets, Passports, Billfolds, Phones, and Purses. Well, when he targeted me he got absolutely nothing. Zip, Nada, Bugger all. My Clothing Arts Shorts stopped him in his tracks, NOTHING was taken. Thanks Team.

And just a random thought, Bird Poop is usually white !! :o)

Best Regards,
Alan S. from Tukwila, Washington​