Showing posts with label belts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belts. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Why are we limited?

Guy belts?  No way.

I thought about this while I was in a Burlington Coat Factory store (window shopping only, alas) and I saw their belt racks.

Men wear belts.  Women wear belts.  Men wear pretty much solid belts with brass (sometimes silver) buckles in a handful of colours.  (Western wear excepted.)

Women have Fabric or leather or metal belts.  They might be solid or have a series of openings or patterns.  They might be woven.  Colours are unlimited.  Widths are unlimited.  Buckles have a variety of ways to close.  I even saw a couple where the front has two metal bits that interlock and size is adjusted from the back.

They're just belts.  Granted, for men they're often for utility; for women they're often for decoration.

But why are we limited?

More importantly, why do we allow ourselves to be limited?  I'm open to suggestions and solutions. 

I have none.