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The following is presented to you so that perhaps you might obtain a greater understanding and appreciation for the common Belt Buckle. It is a clothing accessory which is under appreciated and for the most part is taken for granted.

Buckles are normally made of metal that is quite strong so as to hold the weight and pressure that could accidentally unclasp the belt or strap. So a belt buckle is a buckle that is used on a belt. At one end of the belt is a belt buckle that is fashioned onto it. The other end of the belt contains several holes, into which a prong or post (which is part of the buckle) is inserted into it for the purpose of securing the belt. In Western civilizations, men usually insert the belt through the pant loops in a counter-clockwise manner (looking down from above), while women tend to insert the belt in a clockwise direction.

Belts and buckles have been used for clothing since the Bronze Age. Both sexes used them off and on, depending on the current fashion, but it was a rarity in female fashion with the exception of the early Middle Ages. During the 2nd and 3rd century B.C. the Chinese semi nomadic people known as the Xiongnu wore belt buckles over long Tunics. These belt buckles were highly decorated and were worn as a mark of status. Germanic invaders, imported animal motifs characteristic of Scythian-Sarmatian decorative arts for their belt and buckles. This decorative art often represented animals entwined in mortal combat. A fine example of a buckle of a heavy rectangular type decorated with filigree was found in the tomb of Childeric I, king of the Franks, who died in AD 481/482. Several 7th-century gold buckles with interlacing curvilinear patterns and cutaway tongues, now in the British Museum, London, were found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial.

These modern additions to your wardrobe did not start out as such. Rather, buckles usage was started for their basic utility. Belts and buckles for the common man go back to the early 1600s, and the trials and tribulations of the British maritime industry.

These were the days before World War I, when the era belonged to the British Empire. This was also before the start of the railroad, which had a hand in diminishing the importance of the British fleet. Just like the railroad (and so many other inventions throughout human history), the belt buckle came about as a response to the needs of both the military and the merchant class.

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