Which direction do you put on your belt? Starting going to the left and around your body, or to the right? Is there a general consensus on which direction is standard? Or is it more a determinant of your gender or your dominant hand?
I’m male, left handed, and I start my belt going left.
Poll to follow.
In before the poll!
Male, right-handed, belt goes left. That way you can cinch it down using your right hand. And believe me, with my gut, that’s a lot of cinching!
Since we’re not allowed to post “me too” posts, I’ll just say “me also.”
Female, right handed, start it going to the left. I have no idea why, though. I never wondered about it until I read this question.
if you put it on in the wrong direction then the buckle design will be upside down. how nerdy is that?
right handed - start the belt from the left.
op should have also asked when you put the belt in. I thread my belt through the loops after taking the pants off the hanger and have them ready to put on the next morning.
Now that you say that, I remember having a western belt as a kid that had my name stamped into the leather on the back. In order for you to see the name correctly, the belt had to be put on going to the left. So that may be the standard direction.
Plus those rodeo riders with the belt buckles indicating their championships, etc. probably have to go a certain direction also to be readable. I would suspect it is to the left also.
Good question. I put my pants on, then put my belt on.
Now that’s a bit strange. I don’t take my pants off the hanger until I’m getting dressed and then put the belt on after my shirts tucked in.
Male, right handed, start to the left. Which, as mentioned, is the “proper” way according to whoever makes belt buckles…though I guess to be fair most belt buckles don’t have an “up” or “down,” so it doesn’t matter most of the time.
But still…it starts on the left…don’t put it on the right, that’s wrong. That’s like going sock-shoe, sock-shoe…you just don’t do that! Sock-sock, shoe-shoe!
What is this “hangar” you speak of? My pants come out of the laundry basket in the morning. If I’m just going to go back to the shop the next day, the belt stays in the pants, which go on the floor.
Oh, and it starts on the left.
I hang my pants over the back of a chair by my bed. I wear the same office pants three days unless they get something spilled on them. Belt stays in the pants until I get a fresh pair from the closet. I try not to wake the wife in the morning. So I prepare everything the night before. Put on the clothes the next morning and go into the kitchen without waking her.
All the fancy cast belt buckles guys wore in the 70s worked with the belt starting to the left. I still have my Levi’s belt buckle as seen here-
http://nvisionshop.com/?wpsc-product=levi-strauss-unbuttoned-pants-belt-buckle
There’s no option for “I always put an onion on my belt”.
I alternate. I thought everyone did.
I wear suspenders.
Male, but otherwise would have posted a nearly identical reply. Then I began to think a bit and…
Then I remembered my old belt buckles that assumed starting on the left and… damn it. I do another “me too” post rather than coming up with a contribution.
Most of my current belts are “smooth plaque” types where the “buckle” looks like a smooth polished piece of metal and has a short, stationary peg on the back that is pushed into the appropriate hole on the belt. The belt would look identical no matter which side it’s threaded through… but I still do left first.
It has seriously never occurred to me in life before this thread that anyone would start a belt to the right. It’s as though someone invented a previously unheard-of dimension. Your science confuses me!
Wow…I didn’t know I was doing it upside down (or backwards or whatever) for all of these years! I’ve never had a belt buckle that wasn’t symmetric, so I never noticed.
Who needs a belt when you’ve got suspenders? (In my belt-wearing days, and with casual clothes that do not give themselves naturally to suspenders, I took the standard route, right handed and to the left.)