Double breasted or center fastening?

[PMBardunias]

The major difference with other belt-wearing warriors is that I don't know of belts commonly being worn over cuirasses in cultures other than Greek or those influenced by the Greeks. Our evidence also points to it being a sign of authority, and thus a mark of the officer, and not simply a warrior trait.

I mention the ubiquity of belts as signs of manhood to suggest that this is why a belt would be chosen as such a sign of rank- it is tied to a long tradition of belts as martial signs.

I have a hard time seeing this as functional: it is primarily depicted being worn by men wearing metal cuirasses, and any organic cuirass stiff enough to properly deflect blows could surely be very difficult to cinch with a belt.

I don't imagine you could simply cinch it like a pair of pants, but if it were ill-fitting the bottom tie might need some extra support in holding a too-tight corselet together, or if too loose, you could pull the bottom of the side-panel past where it normally fastens and hold it together at a smaller diameter. This is something that could be easily tested by Giannis, if he would be so kind.