Straps 2? 3? & a good source

[Bugbear]

Interesting... The top two straps and buckles would normaly be covered by a belt or a waistcoat; unless it was very casual...

So, if you do away with the third lower buckle, which seems to do more harm than good, then you no longer have to worry about the metal of the buckles or the leather of the straps matching the rest of the leather and metal of the outfit.

I guess there's no way to put a stabilizer around from the third strap to the buckle, behind the canvas to take up the tension...