Army Belts
The belt is one of the first clothes that the human being used. From the Neolithic, mankind began to wear leather straps to sift their skins. Going a little further in time, in Ancient Egypt, women usually wore in their wombs a kind of tie that could be interpreted as a belt.
In several paintings found by archaeologists, one could also notice the use of a kind of buckle or similar objects, giving more sense or closeness to want is a current belt.
At the time when the Roman Empire dominated Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, the belts began to take on important meaning. In those years, as well as several garments, the belt for Romans represented power, strength, and dignity.
For this reason, it should be noted that the greatest offense that a person belonging to the army could receive was to remove the belt. In this way, the military stripped him of this identity as part of the army.
Subsequently, years later, specifically in the Middle Ages, the most important part of the belt was the buckle, made by goldsmith artisians. The shape, materials and structure of the buckle were characteristics that distinguished the one who wore it by giving it a status of superiority or social hierarchy. They were generally made of leather or metal in the case of chastity belts (which was also a practice of the time).
In modern times, at the beginning of the 20s, gentlemen began to wear the belt as part of the clothing, the hat being equally an important accessory in addition to the shirt, jacket, tie, pants, socks, and shoes.
In the same way, the army has used this accessory not to keep a part of the uniform attached to the other, but this type of belts called tactics to fulfill functions beyond those, which are to be able to transport objects necessary to carry out a mission, as well as getting to support the lower back of the soldier.