Why do men continue to wear belts? Do belts help to keep pants from falling down? Women have pants that don’t have belt loops but their hips can keep the pants from falling down.
I need a belt to keep my pants from falling down. Well, they probably won’t fall down, but they won’t stay in place either and I would feel like I was constantly in danger of losing my pants.
Pants that are tight enough to stay perfectly in place without a belt are too tight.
No, only some women’s pants don’t need belts. There’s quite a large variety of cuts. I’m high waisted, and the pants that don’t fall down look quite stupid on me. I always wear belts, lest I expose my undies.
Yes belts keep the pants on men. That and the laws against public indecency.
Keep in mind ladies, men’s hips are pretty much straight up and down, and don’t flare out like women’s do
Without belts, many of us would have pants that would eventually fall down, even if they fit perfectly.
Most men don’t have hips and butts wide enough to prevent sagging. Sagging is not only a fashion crime, it’s a crime against nature. We should be thankful that most guys are willing to wear a belt and/or suspenders in order to prevent buttcrack exposure.
Straight men do not like to wear tight trousers. Women do.
The fact that straight men do not like to wear tight trousers means that they probably need belts.
I would love it if I didn’t need to wear a belt but I do.
Well, most of the time. Baggy pants have not always been the norm, and they may not continue to be.
With me it depends–with suit or dress trousers I usually need a belt, just to keep them in the proper place but not necessarily to keep them on. I certainly don’t need a belt to hold my jeans up, but usually wear one anyway because I think it looks better.
I’m a woman, and feel the need to put in my $.02.
I’m short-waisted, which means if I buy low-rise pants the crotch fits but the waist is too big because the “waist” on low-rise jeans is meant for the hips, but on me it actually reaches my waist.
Belt needed.
If I buy regular-rise pants, the waist is too high, so If I let the waist sit naturally it goes to my hips and I get man-crotch and doody-butt, which really looks bad and stupid.
Belt needed to cinch in waist at waist level so no-look-stupid.
My Dad has to wear belts for the same low-waist thing, very long torso, and guaranteed pantsing if he doesn’t wear a belt.
Very functional. Not only do they keep my pants up (I seem to have lost a couple of inches to my waistline, though I weigh the same), but I keep my cell phone on it.
About to say this. A belt is a convenient device upon which to suspend various tools, including phones, radios, weapons, or pants.
Most men are cheap and don’t care about fashion, so we tend to keep our pants until they literally disintegrate. I’ve had pants that wore clean through the fat part of the hems or burst open at the crotch before I finally gave up on them. Pants shrink for the first few washings but after that they start to stretch out. Plus, if you keep pants long enough, eventually you’ll go through a slimmer phase. Thus the functional need for belts.
Plus, if I bought pants that were an inch or two too big in the waist, I’d much rather belt up than return the pants to the store.
… and various bat-themed devices.
Both.
I disagree that men’s pants would fall off without a belt. That would only be true if you have a great big gut that extends to your waistline instead of the more normal upper abdomen, and no ass at all. I don’t need a belt at all with properly-fitting pants, I didn’t need a belt even when I had a gut and a smaller but flabbier ass than I’ve got now.
On the functional side, a belt kept my pants from falling down when I lost a button off them at work. If you’ve lost weight, they help there too. I’ve got a few pairs of pants left from when I was fat that I probably wouldn’t be able to wear comfortably without a belt. I could wear the pants, but I’d look like one of those idiot kids who run around showing the top half of their underwear all the time.
On the decorative side, they can also look nice. They provide a visual border between top and bottom colors. They can have decoration on the belt, buckle, or both. Men don’t wear much in the way of jewelry or other accessories. This is one of the few decorative touches we can have in casual to semi-dress clothes.
I lost twenty pounds this year and also inches off my waist, so the belt is a must for me. I need to readjust it every fifteen to twenty minutes which is very annoying. My pants were too big for me to begin with, because at the time I purchased them I was in-between sizes. I am hoping to buy some new clothes once my financial-aide gets in (I know, how devious of me) because I really need it. Though if I can get into Federal Work-Study…
Anyway.
~S.P.I.~
Yeah, most of my cloths don’t really fit, so i wear a belt.