RetroTed, your photo says it all. It looks really sharp.

And Streetcar makes the important linguistic point that in the US in modern parlance, "Sam Brown[e]" refers to a pistol/gear belt, with or without a shoulder strap (which almost no one wears these days). Rogerson's site reference--http://www.bianchi-intl.com/product/...?TxtModelID=B2--shows a Bianchi belt exactly like on e I owned 30 years ago for police work, and everyone called it a Sam Browne.

When I was in the Corps, we had some very handy suspenders which attached to our web belts to help carry the weight of our gear, and from Cajunscot's site reference, it would appear that the old traditional Sam Browne was based on the same concept. It showed some photos of leather suspenders (braces for you lads on the other side of the pond) on a belt.