Sure.
How raised, what you do.
Winter means one dresses in layers, with sweaters, and coats. Winter also means gloves.
Just reaching for keys, means having to remove gloves often times, unzip/unbutton a coat, sometimes lifting up a sweater in order to access keys in a pocket.
Winter clothing does allow one to carry a bigger gun, and to more easily conceal it.
Then again what good is something you cannot access quickly if you need it?
This is where a smaller gun can really be a useful tool in the tool box during winter.
Just like The Christy Knife, any pocket knife with a corkscrew, automatic center punch, Parker Jotter ball point pen, and other items Mentors shared when I was coming up.
Keep in mind I was born in the mid 1950s.
I first saw Mentors share with Ladies about fingerless gloves, and pocket carry for tools such as guns, knives, and impact weapons. My maternal grandma did this, and she passed before I turned six years old.
So I was born seeing her and other ladies do this.
Guys did this too of course.
Then again keep in mind a lot of folks in cities took the bus, or streetcar; especially single ladies.
Young lady from a rural or semi rural area would move to a bigger city to attend college, and often times lived in a boarding house and walked to work downtown, or rode the bus/streetcar to work, and then take the bus/streetcar to attend night classes.
With a gun in the coat pocket, wearing fingerless gloves, if nothing more than on strong side hand, a lady had hand on gun, knife, or impact tool.
Add an umbrella for the cold, rainy days- and nights.
Married gals, well back then, most families only had one car. The husband took the car to work, except on Friday, (payday) when the wife would take him to work, and used the car to get groceries, and other shopping done.
There was Blue Laws in effect, meaning no stores open on Sunday. There were no Wal-Marts or any stores open late, for sure not 24 hours.
A lady has always been more of a target walking , waiting for a bus/street car, sitting at a stop light, getting to and from a grocery store/shopping place and vehicle, and standing there locking and unlocking a door to where she lived.
Friday was payday, everybody knew it, especially criminals.
Criminals watched folks go to the bank. Not just employees, also business owners.
Many times employers paid employees in cash.
Why?
Simple, it saved employees the trouble of having to spend their 30min, or 1hour lunch time going to the bank.
Sometimes a guy would ride into work with a neighbor. These two neighbor wives shared that one car.
Pay envelopes were passed out that morning, the wives ran by husband's work and they handed the wife the envelope with cash or check, to run by the bank and take care of groceries and other shopping.
It is said everything we need has already been invented, just it is re-discovered from time to time.
Sure, the only constant is change...
These tools may change, still without Mindset and Skillsets, a Tool is useless.
Tools:
Snub nosed revolver, it may have only been a "hardware store" Iver Johnson, or H&R or a Smith & Wesson or Colt.
.22 lr was used often, as it allowed for less expensive , quality practice.
.32 cal was real popular and of course .38spl.
See, everyone knew that the .22 lr snub nose , allowed for instilling the correct basic fundamentals of shooting, for using the more powerful .32 or .38.
Cops did this, so did the private sector.
These guns will fire from the coat pocket, you knew this of course.
Folks were raised right, they started young learning to do these things. Such as being able to open The Christy Knife, or carton cutter, or pocket knife with corkscrew, while in the pocket.
Even a old fashioned small pen knife less than 3" can be, if one knows how.
"Snick" - did you just see me open the corkscrew on a SAK Spartan weak handed?
Of course not, my weak hand was in the pocket of the zip up sweat shirt / jacket I am wearing with a hood.
Now I got a tool if need in hand, right now.
What is in my other pocket?
1929 Colt Detective Special , loaded with standard pressure 158 gr LSWC.
I can as I just did, access these sitting down, with my zipper , zipper up halfway.
Pocket Knife with corkscrew, no, I do not drink.
Still a lot of folks carried a pocket knife with a corkscrew that did not drink when I was kid as well.
Some of these knives would be called "waiter knives" today, SAK makes a few.
Set aside many bottles came with cork stopper, or aspirin bottles had cotton in them.
Many a mom has gotten that knot out of tennis shoe of a child. She had gotten that knot out of a piece of rope, even a dawg leash.
Yes, hammers were bobbed even back then, one could also buy a hammer shroud for S&W and Colts.
As I said, some things are not really new, they are just re-discovered from time to time.
The AA Mini-Mag Light was pretty neat and special when these came out, still a small chrome flashlight with a glass lens , made an impact too....