WHERE SHOULD YOU START WEARING YOUR BELT LEFT OR RIGHT?It is always reassuring to find that there are even more obsessive geeks
out there than me. I confess to never having thought about this issue.
But the idea that there might be a wrong way to do up your belt makes me
quite giddy. So I have been poring over fashion photographs and found
that there does not seem to be a standard: As with many things, some
guys go left, some guys go right. I myself thread counterclockwise (that
is, the non-buckle end of the belt finishes by pointing left) and I am
right-handed.
Then I did an exhaustive scientific survey of
fashionable men and found that, indeed, counterclockwise is the most
common direction among the right-handed. So yes, the left-over-right
principle is violated. And interestingly, right-handed women seem to
thread their belts in the same way, breaking the principle that women's
and men's clothes should be directionally distinguished (as with
buttons). The one left-handed man in my survey went clockwise.
But it
is worth noting that all buckles, even the ones that have some
non-standard form of closure, such as the simple stud-in-hole that backs
the more ostentatious metal symbols, can be presented facing either way
and even turned upside down and lose no function. So you should lose no
sleep over this: Any way is fine. And your jacket is going to be closed
most of the time anyway, right?
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