Cargo Pants
Some time back, I switched from slacks to cargo pants.
My chiropractor was giving me grief about always sitting on my wallet, and what that was doing to my back alignment.
I went to a cargo pants design because I could carry my wallet on my left thigh instead of my left "cheek."
I found that this also made it possible for me to carry other stuff, and more of it. Jury is still out on whether that's a blessing or a curse.
I can see the problem with pocket-carry of a small pistol. The small pocket knife I usually carry in that pocket would have to move someplace else.
I came up with a crude-but-effective solution to carrying extra stuff in my right-thigh pocket. Being something of a geek, I suffer from
"nature-abhors-an-empty-pocket" syndrome. I wanted to carry a flashlight and an extra knife and a flash "thumb drive" stick, and the pocket certainly had room, but stuff jingled and rattled when I walked. It's fine to be
privately uncool, but the rattling walk makes the uncoolness a public matter.
My solution was cheap and . . . inspired?
I got an eight-dollar pair of (white) goatskin gloves at the local sporting goods store, took one glove and turned it completely inside out, then rolled the cuff down to expose the finger "pockets." I can stick a knife or two in it, along with a flashlight and other stuff, and it doesn't rattle or chafe.
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No, it's not a custom wallet -- certainly not as nice as the one above -- but I could carry that in a hip pocket if need be, and I'd have easy access to my stuff.
My large folder rides horizontal on belt. I could probably get a smaller pouch for my belt if I wanted to have my small folder somewhere other than a pocket.
Simple solution, of course -- depending one how much junk you have in the opposite pocket -- is to simply move the pocket knife to the other side.