Do you coordinate your roman uniform?

[Octavianvs]

my original belt was raw natural colour and I just kept oiling it it went from very pale light tand to golden tan to brown now its black ( well more or less ) I had another belt i had made for someone years ago that wanted black. they had thier belt plates tinned and niello ( i think thats whats it called ). so I took the same natural belt ( before applying belt plates ) and applied some oil with soot mixed in. did this a couple of times then hit it with beeswax. he never said anything about it so i dont know how long it lasted or what he did to it after i was done.