Reversable Kilt Belts

[GMan]

Hell-o all,

While in my past life of wearing trousers, and being of fugal nature I usually always had a reversible belt, black on one side and brown on the other. What I want to know is if anyone has ever heard of one designed for a Kilt belt? Or is it practical?

[HeathBar]

I'd buy one. Seems like a logical thing to me. Its a wonder that no one has come up with it. For kilts anyways.

[Iolaus]

Just thinking outloud here...

You'd need to sew two finished surfaces back-to-back, and be able to flip the buckle over as well - and you need to consider how you're going to attach the buckle so that it looks good either way.

I'm thinking a traditional buckle and opposing loop won't work well for this application, due to the folding of the leather to hold the hardware. You'd need to rebuild the belt when you flipped it over; you'd have to be reversing the folds, and the leather likely wouldn't reshape itself very easily.

I think the key to this would be a specialized hook-n-hole buckle that attaches onto the end of the strap, with a pivot-joint built into the buckle, so that it flips without detaching, and it'd have to be big enough to be in propotion with a wide belt...


...a simpler idea might be to have a buckle with four hooks - two at each end - and have a seperate belt strap with two holes at the end to hook into, and then your standard row of matching holes at the other end. It would be easy to flip that one over.

[Bob C.]

When you add the fact that a brown belt needs a brass buckle and a black belt needs a silver/nickle buckle, the idea becomes even less practical.

The devil's in the details, eh, Glenn?

[Richland]

I never heard of it, but i did see a very nice looking dark brown leather belt with brass two prong buckle at sears the other day in the toolbelt section. It would look great with the right kilt if you had all the brown accessories to go with it.
It was only $14.00, so at that cost, it is a winner...