Belts (clothing)

worn band or braid, usually around the waist or hips

thumb|A young man wearing suspenders with grip fastenings, 2013 thumb|A man wearing suspenders with button fastenings, 2006 Suspenders (North American English), or braces (British English, New Zealand English, Australian English), are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up skirts or trousers. The straps may be elasticated, either entirely or only at attachment ends, and most straps are of woven cloth forming an X or Y shape at the back. Suspenders are typically attached to skirts and trousers with clips or buttons using leather tabs at the ends.

thumb|right|Sketch of a garter. The band goes around the leg, and the hook on the lower side attaches to the top of the stocking. A garter is an article of clothing comprising a narrow band of fabric fastened about the leg to keep up stockings. In the to centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg is most slender, to keep the stocking from slipping. The advent of elastic has made them less necessary from this functional standpoint, although they are still often worn for fashion. Garters have been widely worn by men and women, depending on fashion trends.

thumb|Philip V of Spain|Philip V, King of Spain wearing two types of sash: a red waist sash and the blue sash (Cordon Bleu) of the [[Order of the Holy Spirit]]

is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, levels or degrees of proficiency or experience. In Mandarin Chinese, the same character is pronounced jí, and the term is used for academic tests. In Korea, the term geup () is used (also transliterated as gup or kup). In Vietnamese martial arts, it is known as cấp (khớp).

type of pouch with a waist strap

indication of attainment of a high rank of skill in martial arts

thumb|right|Mexican revolutionary general Pancho Villa wearing two bandoliers

thumb|right|"Thor" (1901) by Johannes Gehrts.

leather belt with a supporting strap that passes over the right shoulder, worn by military and police officers

The cincture is a rope-like or ribbon-like article sometimes worn with certain Christian liturgical vestments, encircling the body around or above the waist. As usual with vestments, both the term and the object are taken from ordinary everyday dress of the distant past. There are two types of cinctures: one is a rope-like narrow girdle or rope-like belt around the waist. The other type is a broad ribbon of cloth that runs around the waist and usually has a section that hangs down from the waist; this type is often called a "band cincture" – it would be a "waist-sash" in secular contexts. One

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vestment; form of girdle or belt common in the ancient eastern Mediterranean

Zunnar (also spelled "zunar" or "zonar"; '''') was a distinctive belt or girdle, part of the clothing that Dhimmi (e.g. Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians) were required to wear during the Middle Ages in regions under Islamic rule. Though not always enforced, the zunnar served as a tool to distinguish the dhimmi from Muslims and, together with a set of other rules, of discrimination.

thumb|A cavalryman wearing a mail shirt with a baldric over his right shoulder, from the Roman Tropaeum Traiani, built 109 AD in the area of present-day Romania. thumb|U.S Army band baldric

right|thumb|Women stitching for men going to war in China, 1937 A or one thousand stitch is a belt or strip of cloth stitched 1,000 times and given as a Shinto amulet by Japanese women and imperial subjects to soldiers going away to war.

thumb|upright=1.2|Zoroastrian priest instructing a child in the tying of the kushti in the navjote ceremony

Christian relic in the form of a belt

belt with a concealed compartment

utility belt worn by fictional superhero Batman

fastener for a belt

Christian relic

thumb|right|A Christian (Anglicanism|Anglican) [[priest wearing a white girdle around his waist to hold his alb and stole in place.]] A belt without a buckle, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle in various contexts, especially historical ones, where girdles were a very common part of everyday clothing from antiquity until perhaps the 15th century, especially for women. Most girdles were practical pieces of costume to hold other pieces in place, but some were loose and essentially for decoration. Among the elite these might include precious metals and jewels.

thumb|Silk gartel thumb|Silk-like gartel thumb|Silk woven gartel The gartel is a belt used by Jewish males, predominantly (but not exclusively) Hasidim, during prayer. "Gartel" is Yiddish for "belt". The word comes from the same source as German "Gürtel", which is also cognate with the English "girdle", and "girt".

mythological vestment

Belt used to carry equipment