Belt (clothing)

Belts, similar in concept to suspenders, are articles of clothing worn to both support a pair of pants around the waist and complete a professional or otherwise fashionable appearance.

Materials

Modern belts can be made from leather, nylon, cotton, chain, or other decorative material. Most belts are made from a material that is durable, because of the excessive wear that a belt must tolerate over the course of its use. Most belts are made of leather for this reason.

Parts of a belt

A belt is usually assembled from a length of material referred to as a "strap", a buckle which has a pin that is inserted into one of the punched holes, and a beltloop which the excess strap is fed through. The most customizable piece of a belt is the belt buckle.

Belt buckles come in an incredible array of sizes, shapes, and designs. In some music scenes, it is not atypical to find large, elaborate, decorative belt buckles to be the norm. Technology has also allowed functionality to be built into belt buckles: portable led scrolling signs and their controlling circuity have been a recent fad targeted toward a specific group of people, often represented by the phrase "geeks".