How To.. wear the Pugio and Gladius (belts, fasteners)

[Tarbicus]

as any soldier of any experience will tell you each and every thing on a piece of equipment has a function and use that is why it was put there.

Not much need for enamel, silver or niello inlays, or decorative embossing, etc. More a status statement, surely?

I think it's just as easy to swing the other way and try to give everything too much functional meaning, when it can often simply have a cultural, religious or traditional meaning.