Everything you must know about belts

Posted by deepa on May 16th, 2019

Belts are often ignored as functional pieces used to hold up our pants. But such is definitely not the case. Belts serve the purpose of giving a finishing touch to your outfit.

Belts are made from a variety of material like leather, cotton, and polyester. But, the leather belts still dominate the market. They are simply classic and built to last long.

Leather Pavillion, a pioneer in leather belts manufacturing and sales, offers the most comfortable, great fitting and stylish leather belts all over the world.

So, if you’re looking to buy a belt, here is a guide to tell you everything you need to know about them.

Types of Belts

There are two fundamental categories of belts.

1. Dress Belts

Dress belts must be worn with suits, dress slacks, and business casual pants. It's a pretty simple rule, if you are going to wear dress shoes, wear a dress belt that compliments your shoes. You must take care of the texture, color and the material of your belt.

Furthermore, dress belts are generally thinner, glossy finished and made of leather. Their buckles are smaller and perfectly polished.

2. Casual Belts

Casual belts should be worn with casual pants like chinos, capris, shorts, and jeans. As compared to dress belts, they are wider and generally have bigger buckles.

They are usually covered by an un-tucked shirt and their buckles are not as polished as a dress belt’s buckle.

Leather Pavillion offers a wide variety of both dress and casual belts. You can choose from fashion belts, studded belts, hand carved belts, etc.

Features & Designs

There is a fundamental design difference between a dress belt and a casual belt. A dress belt will usually have a shorter tail when compared to a casual belt. Always keep in mind that the tail end of your belt should be long enough to pass through one belt loop after fastening. If the tail extends any longer, it gives an awkward look.

When talking about the colors, it’s must to have your dress belts match the color of your shoes. Whereas for casual belts, it’s not a hard and fast rule to match the color. It's up to your personal preference to decide upon the color of your belt and your outfit.

Leather Material

Leather is loved worldwide for its durability and flexibility. It comes in four different quality grades or grains. They are as follows:

• Full grain leather

• Top grain leather

• Genuine leather

• Corrected grain leather.

Full grain leather is the highest quality leather available in the market which is followed by top grain leather, genuine leather and corrected grain leather, in terms of quality.

You should buy only those belts which are made of either full grain or top grain leather. Genuine and corrected grain leather are low-grade material which easily breaks down. It is a general observation that full grain leather belts improve with age whereas genuine and corrected grain leather belts get worse with age.

Thus, always prefer full grain or top grain leather material for your belt.

Leather Pavillion boasts of producing and selling belts of only full grain vegetable tanned leather, which is cut, stitched and riveted by hand. An environmental friendly practice is followed to produce top quality belts.