Matthew,

Take a look at this blog entry by none other than Matt Newsome on the very subject of black vs. brown. It isn't so much a question of color for the belt as much as it a question of the style of the belt.

Hope this is of help (it is the second entry on the bottom of the page)

http://blog.albanach.org/archive/200...r_archive.html

Cheers

Panache