Belts.Where would you be without them?
In the 1980s. That's where you'd be.
I was watching an episode of CHiPs this morning with my two boys and it struck me that apart from the good men and women of the California Highway Patrol, nobody else seemed to be wearing a belt.
Everyone was wearing jeans, mostly too tight, and nobody was wearing a belt.
Then of course the 80s belt-less trend seems to have been halted and people nowadays wear belts.
Is this some kind of turning point in fashion? Was there a point where someone "reintroduced" the belt, uttering something like "You know dahlings, belts are the new must-have accessory. They are to die for!"
Peculiarly enough, I was watching an episode of CSI last night and there was a young guy who had attempted to murder a complete stranger. A belt loop from his jeans was found at the scene. When Grissom and Stokes followed two sniffer dogs to this guys house there he was playing basketball out front. He was wearing jeans with no belt.
Perhaps my "theory" about the introduction of the belt is not so watertight. Unlike those jeans from the 80s.
3 comments:
My reason for wearing a belt is purely utilitarian.
yeah. Me too. When I don't wear one my pants fall down. Plain and simple.
I guess if I was guest starring on CHiPs back in the 80s and nobody was wearing a belt then I'd be sure to get myself the tightest pair of jeans imaginable..so they wouldn't fall down in the middle of a key scene.
Then again there was that craze a few years back where it was "fashionable" for your pants to hang down so everyone could determine the manufacturer of your boxer shorts.. if you were a guy at least that was the case. Not sure if that was ever a trend with women
I think for women, it was the manufacturer of her thong. Actually, let's keep that trend alive.
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