Belt DIrection?

[Yaish]

Ah, that makes sense. Still haven't had it become an issue with any of my belts but I can see the reasoning now.

[cessna152towser]

The Wizard of BC wrote:-

the belt goes around yourself in the opposite direction that a trouser belt goes.

Thanks for that explanation. I've always worn my belts with the excess tail running to my right. That is until I bought the Union Kilts jeans belt, for wearing with casual kilts. If I wear it to my right then the logo is upside down, and all the models on their website wear theirs with the belt tail to their left.

[jdbenson]

Just a geeky point of clarification:

You can't really rely on old photos to accurately determine belt direction. Old tintype or ferrotype photography produced prints that were mirror images of reality. So what looks like a belt with the excess on the right side would in reality have the excess on the left.

There's a famous picture of Billy The Kid that shows him wearing his pistol on his left hip that has given rise to myth that he was left handed. He was not. That is a tintype photo. If you look at his buttons on his clothes you can easily tell the photo was reversed. Billy was right handed.

[Rampant Lion]

With my clan crest buckle, I hold the buckle in my left hand and the free end in my right and my belt ends up being right-side-up. I guess those guys at the CCC understand that most people are right handed when they put my buckle together.