How important is a belt?

[NCMC]

If you are choosing between a good bottle of scotch and a belt, choose the bottle.
I wear a belt only as a piece of leather to attach a Tyger Forge belt buckle on. In short, wear what looks good in your opinion.

[Ryan Ross]

I wear a belt only as a piece of leather to attach a Tyger Forge belt buckle on. In short, wear what looks good in your opinion.

Sing it, brother.






Note: The right Tyger Forge buckle can also serve as valuable protection against evil entities that dwell in the deep. See post #73. :cthulhusmiley:

[tyger]

If you are choosing between a good bottle of scotch and a belt, choose the bottle.
I wear a belt only as a piece of leather to attach a Tyger Forge belt buckle on. In short, wear what looks good in your opinion.

Ha! Thanks guy.

That is pretty much how I look at it too.

I love swaping out buckles on any belt. I think the belt draws a line. It becomes a boundary for the kilt upper limit, much like the knees form the lower limit.

And I like having something that is discerning- others might have it, some might notice it- and I can feel it.

[Ryan Ross]

I love swaping out buckles on any belt.

I love that I have the ability to do that now, too. Just being able to mix things up a bit, get some variety going and whatnot, makes life, and kilt outfits, more interesting. Plus, once I have the brown belt in hand, I'll have four different permutations, right there.

Add in that I've got a brown and a black belt, each with plain pewter center-bar buckles, and that makes six different belt options, or three per sporran. Factor in three black sporrans and two brown, and that makes 15 different permutations, just from the belts and sporrans alone. Times four kilts, and you have 60 different permutations, just from sporran, belt, and kilt, never mind when you start with different colored hose, garters, bonnets, etc...

As someone who likes to keep what I wear, especially in a very casual setting, looking fairly simple and understated (kilt, belt, sporran, hose, and maybe a sgian dubh, visible garters, bonnet), all of those different combinations can help me keep trying out new things, without having to resort to more and more different types of accessories.

I think the belt draws a line. It becomes a boundary for the kilt upper limit, much like the knees form the lower limit.

I think that's the main reason I advocate the belt, myself. I mean, it's perfectly "correct" to wear no belt, but I care less about "correctness" and more about what I think looks good.

And I like having somthing that only a few discerning others have.

It may seem snarky to some folks, but I feel exactly the same way.

[tyger]

It may seem snarky to some folks, but I feel exactly the same way.

Oh. I sure don't mean to sound snarky. Or snooty.

I just mean to say that we all have reasons why we ascend to an objective. In dress, work, even play. Or in spirituality.

Most people want to express themselves, and find meaning in the process.

I found that if I was going to own a buckle that I really liked, I was going to have to make one because there wasn't one for me out there. At least, I didn't find one.

And I wound up learning a lot in the process.

[tyger]

Here is what I mean:



It isn't Scottish. It is Celtic. And it is a fish (I love fish). And I got a real charge out of creating it. Check out my cone-head rivets! Oh man, I love them too much!

See the photographer's reflection in the glass? I shot this picture on the hood of my Dodge diesel truck.

Here it is in action:



Everything that I am wearing was made by somebody that I met, and asked them to make the thing for me.

[Ryan Ross]

Oh. I sure don't mean to sound snarky. Or snooty.

I just mean to say that we all have reasons why we ascend to an objective. In dress, work, even play. Or in spirituality.

Most people want to express themselves, and find meaning in the process.

Of course not, Mark, but you know how some folks can take offence from anything.

But yes indeed, assention to an objective is an important part of the human experience, as is self expression.

I found that if I was going to own a buckle that I really liked, I was going to have to make one because there wasn't one for me out there. At least, I didn't find one.

And I wound up learning a lot in the process.

I was in the same spot with what I ended up making. If you can't find what you want out there, you gotta' make it yourself- Beats the heck out of wandering around shabby, moping over a buckle or some headgear that never was.

Here is what I mean:



It isn't Scottish. It is Celtic. And it is a fish (I love fish). And I got a real charge out of creating it. Check out my cone-head rivets! Oh man, I love them too much!

We all know what that buckle means, Mark. It means that you only catch a fish once in a blue moon!

See the photographer's reflection in the glass? I shot this picture on the hood of my Dodge diesel truck.

That's a fantastic photo, sir, and a fantastic buckle. As good as the picture is, the buckle looks better in person, though.

Here it is in action:



Everything that I am wearing was made by somebody that I met, and asked them to make the thing for me.

That's what I love the most about hand craftsmanship- the craftsman. Real people, real creativity, real skill, real honor in accomplishment, and real friends. At the end of the day, nothing can beat that.

So the moral here is, I guess, that if you're not friends with someone that can make a first-rate vest or sweater (or as is more likely the case with me, if it's just too hot to wear one), a belt is a great way to display an additional piece of craftsmanship, while also balancing out the look of your outfit.

[tyger]

Of course not, Mark, but you know how some folks can take offence from anything.

But yes indeed, assention to an objective is an important part of the human experience, as is self expression.



I was in the same spot with what I ended up making. If you can't find what you want out there, you gotta' make it yourself- Beats the heck out of wandering around shabby, moping over a buckle or some headgear that never was.



We all know what that buckle means, Mark. It means that you only catch a fish once in a blue moon!



That's a fantastic photo, sir, and a fantastic buckle. As good as the picture is, the buckle looks better in person, though.




That's what I love the most about hand craftsmanship- the craftsman. Real people, real creativity, real skill, real honor in accomplishment, and real friends. At the end of the day, nothing can beat that.

So the moral here is, I guess, that if you're not friends with someone that can make a first-rate vest or sweater (or as is more likely the case with me, if it's just too hot to wear one), a belt is a great way to display an additional piece of craftsmanship, while also balancing out the look of your outfit.

What? You don't dig the cone-head rivets?

Just kidding.

Yes, I agree with all you said there Ryan.

Hey, give me a little cred- I do pretty well in the water for fins. After I get my Compatriotic Fish published, I will let everybody in on the deal.

Do you see a head-cover-that-best-not-be-named in the glass?

Am I putting in on properly (after all, that is the subject of this topic, or is it the topic of this subject, or.......)?