Came into this thread wondering “who the hell wears belts?”. Then saw everyone in here was taking belt wearage as a given. Then looked over at my husband and saw he’s wearing a belt.
TIL, all men apparently wear belts and I just never noticed before.
Men’s pants can be a lot more loose around the waist and we typically have no butt to hold things up.
It’s to leave space for full pockets
You know, in my jealousy about the capacious pockets in men’s pants, I never thought about how they must weigh the pants down when they’re full of keys and wallet and phone and tampons and condoms and stuff. No wonder y’all need belts!
Before I transitioned I used to wear cargo pants. (When presenting male, I didn’t give a fuck what I looked like lol). I put so much stuff in those pockets, including a charger for my laptop. My pants were so heavy I had to wear suspenders to hold them up - a belt wouldn’t cut it.
Yarp. I have a pair of shorts I wear around the house, no belt no problem. The moment I put anything in a pocket, though? They’ll be 'round my knees if I don’t watch out!
Do some squats my brother, everyone loves a good ass.
A lot of jeans don’t have a good cut for an athletic man butt that I have built from 30 years of sports, mostly hockey. I end up tearing out the crotch on all my pants because I can’t find the right cut.
Reporting in with a similar problem. In my case, the crotch gets worn out because I have THICC footballer (soccer) thighs
I finally started doing squats despite bad knees to make my pants fit better.
Man I miss my high school ass, it was glorious.
I tell you hwhat
You have probably noticed but never appreciated that men don’t usually have big hips to keep our pants up (or more specifically our waists and hips tend to be very close to the same size). Some men do, but even well fitting pants slide down on me without a belt. My wife is always amazed when we take our measurements and the hip to waist ratio is so wildly different. She’s like “I knew women’s hips were bigger but Jesus Christ”.
I mean I’m trans and even though I have massive hips to keep my pants on, wearing a belt still helps me pass better since they’re so ubiquitous
That’s fascinating! Especially given thread-OP’s comment.
Are there any other fashion-related things you’ve noticed like that?
I’d say the main other thing I’ve noticed would be angular, (like a sharper rectangle) smaller glasses, since they sit in front of your browline and (I think) make it more pronounced, at least at a glance.
That’s purposeful I think. The difference between men and women’s glasses is fairly subtle, but I have definitely noticed that men’s glasses lend a more masculine look to someone and women’s glasses lend a more feminine look to someone.
Also the buttons and zippers on pants that aren’t jeans are usually kinda flimsy, so the belt gives an extra layer of security ._.
Not just men, I’m a woman and I wear a belt regularly. It keeps my pants from drooping because I’m thin with wide hips.
massive phone, wallet, keys, car keys, airpods, tape measure; all kinds of stuff on the pockets, need a belt to hold the pants up
I’m an elder emo… I still wear my studded belts. D:
Same here! Rarely leave the house without it
Rawr xD, friend
The belts keep the pants up, the pant loops let the belt up. Who is the real hero?
3 years ago I didn’t wear any Then I did for work for like a week
I where one every single day now, it makes me feel Soo well in my clothes
Generally speaking men pants are not form fitting.
That is the style at this time.
Gotta be prepared with a tourniquet just in case!
Plus, most of us have flat grandpa asses that can’t hold our pants up naturally.
I did not think of the first aid implications!
I remember seeing a post shooting interview with a victim and he was wishing that he wore multiple belts because he could have saved more people. It’s kind of sad I couldn’t find the video though… Too many shootings.
What’ll really blow your mind is look to see if the belt color matches his shoes.
That’s a fashion rule that I think is stupid but obey 100% of the time.
all men apparently wear belts
Not me. I used to wear them once upon a time, but I learnt to just buy better fitting pants, or get them altered at the tailors so they fit well.
Look at Rockefeller over here with their tailor.
Something I accidentally did for myself as an adolescent is get a tailor. I cannot recommend enough!
Your clothes look nicer, but they also last a lot longer when they’re altered to work with your body instead of against it.
How much do they cost?
It varies. You can find some very affordable tailors that do really good work. It depends a lot on what you want done. Take in a shirt? Maybe $30. Tons of alterations on a suit jacket? Could be $150+. It really depends.
I’ve found that a good tailor is worth every penny, though. I have many 20 year old clothing items that still look good and aren’t overly worn because they fit well.
Alright, so probably not for me, as the only upper body wear I like is plain red t-shirts, which come pretty cheap anyways.
Yeah, I don’t think t-shirts are necessarily bigtime tailoring candidates, but pretty much all pants are!
I currently have a brand of OTR pants that fit me nicely, so I don’t have every single pair of pants I buy tailored. But the difference is noticeable when I do have a pair done. I like Levis 514 jeans, but they’re cut for wider hips than I posess. A little take-in and maybe a different hem length drastically changes the way I look in jeans. It adds a tidiness that makes them more versatile.
Here’s me running ass naked after pooping to wash my hands before pulling up my pants
I do that too. That is the most annoying point for using public restrooms
Pooh bear!
That’s the spirit
I wash my belts
how do you wash your belts?
When i forget to take them off my pants mostly. I don’t wear like nice leather belts though I just throw them in and let them clank around
Lmao this is gold. You gave me a nice chuckle. Thank you
In the washing machine. Then, I throw them out because they are ruined and buy some more.
I don’t actually do this, but I imagine that’s what the response will be.
lol i saw somebody else comment about cleaning their belts with wet wipes, now i wonder why i didn’t think of that.
Leather cleaner/conditioner and a brush.
I have a cloth belt. I throw it in the laundry when I go to wash all the pants.
Power washer.
Depends on the material, but with leather I give it a light spray of lysol and then just let it air out. TBH I don’t know how effective it is, but I figure it’s better than nothing.
I use saddle soap.
Me too.
Last time I wore a belt was for a costume party like 10 years ago. Dresses and sweatpants don’t thankfully need belts.
If you wash your belt you lose all your jiu-jitsu knowledge and have to start from white again. Everyone knows this.
Is that why no one at the gym will spar with me as a brown belt!?
Maybe if you’d put on something beyond the belt Mr “Sumo Jitsu”
Prestige mode. Excellent.
I don’t know who started this idea but I want to find them and wrap their smelly ass belt around their face.
The sport is gross enough without people dragging their MRSA strips all over the mats.
You never wash your belt? I bet you never wash the poop-knife either.
Sheesh.
Some things probably should stay on Reddit. Like poop-knives.
WHAT ABOUT MY TOE KNIFE
Tip: Just like on old Reddit, you have to use two spaces after a line to get a proper line break.
View the source on this comment if you need an example.
This will outlive us, no matter the platform.
It’s fine, the poop-knife gets wiped off when I start cutting up my food
I’m sorry, the what now?
The poop-knife.
Fellow poop knife enjoyers i see!
wtf are you doing with your poop knife to enjoy it? Poop knifing should be all business, sir.
Well, as far as I know it hasn’t gotten me sick yet.
Thanks for the new fear, though 🙃
Lick it and report back in few days.
There’s not much of a risk of getting sick by your own germs, relatively speaking. I think the primary reason for washing your hands after using the restroom is that it’s gross and you want to get it off your hands before having contact with others. That, and you ought to wash your hands for health reasons at some point anyways, so you might as well do it then. So I guess unless you’re going to be touching your belt much throughout the day, it should be fine.
Just don’t touch anyone else’s belt.
Lots of food borne illnesses are spread through poop. I think it’s the most common form of food borne illnesses from restaurants, at least it was 8 years ago when I did a servsafe course.
Well, you wash your hands before cooking, so don’t touch your belt then either.
Also, thanks for the information. I didn’t consider that.
If your colon has hep A, you have hep A.
Every time I forgot to wash my hands my dad would hit me with his sticky belt. I miss them old days …
Joke’s on you, i never leave the toilet.
Maybe I’m a weirdo, but my belts are leather and I wipe them down with sanitizing wipes when I get home and take them off, for this exact reason.
That poor leather!
Eh, its not been hurt by it in years and years of doing it. Granted I dont wear belts every day, and its not like its some premium leather.
I hate that I know this now.
This reminds me, I need to go see if Lemmy has a Thanks I Hate It (TIHI) community yet.
Thanks. The community must be very new.
Thanks
Perhaps one could even say… you hate it?
Am I the only person that washes hands before putting the belt back on?
Now we all know you touch your pants with your filthy poop hands.
You think you’re anonymous here, but next time I see someone in a public toilet washing their hands with their pants down, I will know their Lemmy handle is @PopularUsername.
This assumes they use the toilet when out of their home. I sure as hell don’t.
You guys aren’t washing your belts?
Alright.
I’ve never even thought about it. I use leather belts and I throw them out after they wear out.
You can’t exactly toss them in the machine.
Now, the belts I’ve had over the years that were made from cloth went in the laundry with everything else.
I don’t know why I never thought about this.
You wear out leather belts? I swear I still have the same 3 leather belts I had 15-20 years ago
There’s a lot of shitty “leather” belts that look great but fall apart rather quickly. I also tend to go through belts on my work pants, but I work construction and that is hard on the leather
Exactly. I have one really expensive belt my uncle gave me that I’ve been wearing since about 2012 and it’s just fine.
I have trashed several Walmart belts in that time.
I have a Dickies belt that has held up pretty well too.
And there’s always that torn up section on the right hip where the tape measure goes
Get some dubbin and treat your leather products with it. They will last longer if they are treated right.
Leather ones you can wipe down with a rag and water. Canvas ones just go in the wash and you can air dry.
I would like to travel about a minute back in time so I could undo reading this!
I bet you think of this during shower.
Wash your hands in the bathroom, nobody bats an eye.
Scrub down your belt buckle in the sink and people lose their minds!
If someone gets uppity in a bathroom when you are practicing good hygiene, ask them why they don’t. And don’t let up.
might wanna rethink using the word ‘uppity’ it has deep-rooted slavery connotations. just fyi.
try ornery/agitated instead
Bruh
From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uppity:
The adjective uppity is an informal, somewhat old-fashioned word. When used to mean “arrogant” or “presumptuous,” it is no more offensive than either of these synonyms. In its meaning of “aspiring to a rank or position higher than one deserves or is entitled to” it is decidedly disparaging, the implication of the word being that the one described does not deserve or is not entitled to rise in standing. Beyond this denotation, however, uppity has a long history of being applied to members of racial minorities and especially to Black people. Its association with such uses, and the bigotry they represent, means that when it is used to describe a member of a racial minority it is likely to be considered especially offensive.
Huh. TIL.
Haven’t seen a minority get uppity about bathroom behaviour in the bathroom.
