Advice on belts

[Caradoc]

I would think adding a few "non-traditional" buckles to the collection would add to the fun, and to help increase outfit options.

I was recently given a buckle that will probably become a daywear buckle on a brown belt.

It's a flask .

I'll probably whip together a different retainer for it, as it's a very cheap naughahyde/leatherette stuff in black, and I'd prefer brown.

I'm also pondering trying to "pad" the sides of the holder with a strip of foam rubber or maybe using a magnet to hold the flask in, and going entirely without the "leather" strap.

[Panache]

I was recently given a buckle that will probably become a daywear buckle on a brown belt.

It's a flask .

I'll probably whip together a different retainer for it, as it's a very cheap naughahyde/leatherette stuff in black, and I'd prefer brown.

I'm also pondering trying to "pad" the sides of the holder with a strip of foam rubber or maybe using a magnet to hold the flask in, and going entirely without the "leather" strap.

It holds up your kilt. It holds your Courvosisier VSOP (or lesser drink). What's not to love?

[GlassMan]

Now that's cool!

[KiltedKnight]

I agree. I don't see anything wrong with a western style buckle, so long as it's not overly large. Keep it about the size of a standard kilt belt buckle and you should be okay.

Sure, and while we're at it why not sew on a cute little felt poodle with rhinestone eyes?

Chris...

[UmAnOnion]

I was recently given a buckle that will probably become a daywear buckle on a brown belt.

It's a flask .
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Loving the quote about this 'buckle' on thier site ...

What better way to get through the day than to have a little Jack Daniels on your very person, to enjoy every now and then? The only problem, aside from maybe your nascent alcoholism, is the bulk factor of traditional flasks.

too damned funny!

[Caradoc]

Loving the quote about this 'buckle' on thier site ...


too damned funny!

Even funnier is this - I can't be a nascent alcoholic... I'm allergic to alcohol in general.

I wasn't always. I used to be able to drink, and loved single malts. Over a three year span, I gradually became more and more allergic.

It started with American/domestic beer, and so I quit those and didn't count it as a loss. Then, even foreign/imported beers caused the same reaction, and it continued to get worse until even pure grain alcohol causes me to react.

Since the reaction causes a butterfly rash across my cheeks and nose, my ears to turn brilliant scarlet, and my upper body to itch madly, I don't drink any more at all. I ignored the symptoms once, and started having trouble breathing. Not good.

I still carry a sporran flask to share with friends, even though I can't drink it myself.

With the belt buckle flask, I can keep cheap stuff in it to give to people I don't like so much, and keep the good stuff in the sporran flask to share with people I like more.

[UmAnOnion]

Even funnier is this - I can't be a nascent alcoholic... I'm allergic to alcohol in general.

I wasn't always. I used to be able to drink, and loved single malts. Over a three year span, I gradually became more and more allergic.

It started with American/domestic beer, and so I quit those and didn't count it as a loss. Then, even foreign/imported beers caused the same reaction, and it continued to get worse until even pure grain alcohol causes me to react.

Since the reaction causes a butterfly rash across my cheeks and nose, my ears to turn brilliant scarlet, and my upper body to itch madly, I don't drink any more at all. I ignored the symptoms once, and started having trouble breathing. Not good.

I still carry a sporran flask to share with friends, even though I can't drink it myself.

With the belt buckle flask, I can keep cheap stuff in it to give to people I don't like so much, and keep the good stuff in the sporran flask to share with people I like more.

as strange as this may sound Carados, i am glad to hear of someone else so afflicted. I have a list of allergies a mile long & alcohol is way up there. I have never been a drinker - bad family history with the stuff - and when the doc came back with that one on the list after extensive testing i wasnt surprised. A lot of folks dont understand allergies etc and think that youre just fussy when you refuse to eat or expose yourself to certain things, when its more a lmatter of 'if i eat it i can DIE' - makes for fun conversations at restaurants describing reactions etc.

[Caradoc]

A lot of folks dont understand allergies etc and think that youre just fussy when you refuse to eat or expose yourself to certain things, when its more a lmatter of 'if i eat it i can DIE' - makes for fun conversations at restaurants describing reactions etc.

Amusing: The first time I had a reaction to alcohol was having a Miller Genuine Draft at a Red Lobster during dinner with my parents.

I thought the waitress was going to plotz. She came to our table, cordless phone in hand, asking if I was OK.

Apparently, my symptoms greatly resemble a shellfish reaction (also potentially lethal) and they see that as an almost common thing at Red Lobster.

Anyway, my closer friends had already come to expect me to carry a flask when I'm in the kilt, and I see no reason to change that just because *I* can't drink it.

[Pleater]

Most of my belts are rather too dainty for my heavier kilts but I found a 2inch wide sturdy belt intended for hanging tool holders and axe hangers and the like.

They were 2UK pounds each so I checked that they were long enough, bought one and then made some wider belt loops for my 'Almost' Black Stewart.

A couple of polishings to smooth the surface, and a little trimming with a scalpel to remove a couple of tiny tags on the edges and it is exceedingly smart - and as it has a roller on the loop it jingles when I put it on.

It might be worth looking in the Village People end of the tool racks (I can never look at all that rawhide and black leather with shiny studwork gear with a straight face) and also, perhaps the gardening section.

You might also be able to find a matching hanger for a first aid kit or a pouch for one of those adrenalin kits to counter anaphalactic shock!!

[Caradoc]

You might also be able to find a matching hanger for a first aid kit or a pouch for one of those adrenalin kits to counter anaphalactic shock!!

My regular first aid kit is way too big to hang on a belt. It fits into a custom-made leather shoulder bag, which in turn fits perfectly into my backpack. So, I can carry it either in the backpack with the rest of my camping gear, or shoulder-carry it.

Not everything should be carried on the belt. Some things should never be carried in a sporran, though - the first time I'd put my cell phone into the sporran, I'd forgotten that I had it on "silent."

That first call was... exciting.