josh over at jibij says it's supposed to be like a quickie temporary pocket or something that you just throw shit into on the fly for a sec, like goggles or gloves...kindve a weird design idea, since you coulda just done that yourself by leaving the zipper open, kinda strange that they'd just force it on you like that...oh well
anyway as far as what the dude said about color, i think the shot i posted in the 08/09 outerwear thread actually comes closest to the real life color...but i know what you mean, lots of peoples' pics look more like royal blue when it's actually closer to teal/turqoise...strange eh? it's gonna be hard to find a hat that goes with em.