09-08-2011, 11:34 AM
Quote:Isn't that why belts have more than one hole?
Quote:With the wide, plated belt sets you don't have as much leeway.Not necessarily. The buckle (on the right side of the belt) is placed on the end, but the left side is about 20 cm longer and passes under the right side, so that no matter what the belt is fastened over (or how fat I grow), there is always leather behind the buckle and the strap, to avoid that gap (image below). Actually, the problem with these large decorated end plates is not getting a bigger waist size, it's growing slimmer. If you don't have a narrow strap or even no 'gap' to begin with, it will become impossible to fasten te belt - without shortening it in another place, of course.
Of course you can make the narrow strap that passes through the buckle as long as you like but you end up with a gap between the plates on the two wide ends, which I'm sure wasn't the idea.
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Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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