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Re: Need some input on gun belts to wear with dress slacks
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:24 am
by RPBrown
All of my belts, either dress or every day are 1.5" Don Hume. They look nice, can get in a varity of colors and they are stiff enough to support the largest of handguns. They are durable enough that I don't worry about them on the bike either.
Re: Need some input on gun belts to wear with dress slacks
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:46 am
by Excaliber
Skiprr wrote:apostate wrote:My experience is that a 1.5" gun belt will fit business casual pants (e.g. khakis, chinos) but not suit pants. However, belt loops vary so nothing is absolute.
Apostate is correct to a degree. A 1.5" leather gun belt will fit fewer than a third of my slacks.
Belt-looping is evidently less than an exact science with haberdashers.
Even if you take a ruler to the belt loops on your Dockers, Slates, Savannes, Polos, or Perry Ellis's, individual loops on a specific pair of pants may be sewn differently...and nobody said a 1.5" gun belt was the same thickness as a wimpy, single-layer belt.
If you wear off-the-rack dress slacks, I think you'll need at least one, good 1.25" gun belt.
If you use a 1.25" belt, be sure to get a holster or belt loop or adapter (depending on the holster maker's options) that is sized accordingly. Using belt slots wider than the belt will make the holster unstable and it won't hold its position well.
Re: Need some input on gun belts to wear with dress slacks
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:45 am
by TxDrifter
Try here.
http://www.leathergoodsconnection.com/ledrbe.html
He did a fabulous 1.25" Ranger Style belt for me out of bridle leather and it passes through airport security metal detectors. Very good craftsmanship as well as polite in emails and following up to let you know about your order. If you use a 43" belt, I have a Ranger belt that I ordered from him that was too big. He offered to adjust it, but since it was my fault I just ordered a new one in the correct size. It hasn't been worn.
This is his Ranger style and what mine looks like.
