The belt, and why I don't wear one.

They can hold up your pants sure, but it's not very effective.  Belts are for utility. Like a tool  belt or a military belt. They're not  for holding up your pants. They're so that if you have a tool and you need it at hand then you can attach it to your belt. Belts were associated with  labor so much that in 1922 Levi Strauss added belt loots to their pants. And what I feel fixed the belts place in history. US military in World War Two almost exclusively at belts some suspenders a little bit but mostly belts. So many of them came back from the war and had  been wearing them  from their tour. And just continued  as habit. Suspenders were going out.  It looks to me That belts were adopted and suspenders were dropped. I guess all I'm trying to say is belts don't hold up your pants.  They were really never meant to. Suspenders do. It seems to me belts are just what people are doing.