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What Belt do you wear with your Jeans?

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#22 · (Edited)
Wearing jeans, means I'm not dressed for work. So, a tucked-in Oxford shirt and Levi's jeans with "no belt" is standard casual attire.

At work as a school music teacher during the week and church organist on weekends, I'm in dress slacks or suit trousers, but belts used for them, as others have noted, look weird wapped around a pair of jeans.

Whether dark or light, all of the blue jeans I have fit snugly at waist. So, same for summer and winter. I was a teenager entering high school when I started wearing jeans without a belt and since it is a neat look for those of us who aren't overweight have stuck with it.
 
#24 ·
As has been pointed out above, jeans require no coordination but they do need holding up, preferably with a sufficiently stout slab of leather that people don't 'look at you funny'. Something along the lines of this.
 
#25 ·
Shaver said:
I can lend my support to that notion. I only have the one pair of jeans but my usual belts are drowned by the belt loops, thus a much wider belt is required.
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Agreed. With Dress Trousers, my belts are around 1.3" in width. With Jeans and Khakis - my belts are around 1.5" wide. I have one brown and one black casual belt, and dress belts in Black, Dark Brown, Walnut and Cordovan.
 
#26 ·
Elmusico said:
Wearing jeans, means I'm not dressed for work. So, a tucked-in Oxford shirt and Levi's jeans with "no belt" is standard casual attire.

At work as a school music teacher during the week and church organist on weekends, I'm in dress slacks or suit trousers, but belts used for them, as others have noted, look weird wapped around a pair of jeans.

Whether dark or light, all of the blue jeans I have fit snugly at waist. So, same for summer and winter. I was a teenager entering high school when I started wearing jeans without a belt and since it is a neat look for those of us who aren't overweight have stuck with it.
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Since I wear my shirts untucked, I'm beginning to wonder whether I should even bother with a belt. I don't need one to hold up my jeans or pants for that matter. Belts are purely a fashion accessory to me.
 
#35 · (Edited)
The belt I wear with jeans is the oldest piece in my wardrobe purchased new. I acquired it in high school.

It's a simple burnished brown leather belt 1 1/2" wide and 1/8"think. I'm not sure the maker since any stamping has long since disappeared, but it definitely wasn't anything special. I guess it would be considered a bridle-style belt. It's been through hell and back: scuffed, cracked and stretched from my larger days. Here's the closest thing I can find (though I certainly didn't pay that much for it!):

https://www.jcrew.com/mens_category/WallaceBarnes/PRDOVR~50492/50492.jsp

I love the damn thing.
 
#38 ·
Topsider said:
Don't those kinda scream "concealed carry," though? Maybe not as bad as a photographer's vest or front-worn fanny pack, but close.
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Almost always when I'm in jeans I'm wearing either an untucked shirt or a hoodie that conceals the belt and anything else. I'm usually very low profile / gray man as far as wardrobe goes. This belt performs its purpose perfectly.
 
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