Awesome Belts

For heavy-duty use, we’re impressed by Arcade’s Hardware Alu utility belt with superior strength and a low-profile buckle system made from aircraft-quality aluminum. The stiff performance stretch webbing is extra robust to support the weight of tools. It’s just the thing for all handymen suffering from butt-crack exposure.

We love the style and message of this pants-keeper-upper from Arcade Belts. Designed by artist Hanna Eddy, the We Are All Connected belt is illustrated with an abstract landscape in shades of green, blue, brown, and white. Like other Arcade Belts, it’s made from stretchy recycled webbing, and its TSA-friendly buckle glides smoothly through belt loops.

Filorosso’s belts are handmade from reclaimed fire hoses, with buckles and other hardware are made from bright-finish American steel. They make a great gift for first responders or anyone who wants to tribute our firefighters with 5% of proceeds going to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

Love Yellowstone, Zion, and the Great Smoky Mountains? Wear your heart on your pants with Arcade’s National Parks belts saluting six iconic parks with patches shaped like Ranger badges. They have a comfy stretch band and a TSA-friendly metal-free buckle to keep your pants from falling down at the airport.

The latest everyday belt from Arcade Belts features a new buckle system that’s easier to feed through belt loops and offers a comfortable contoured fit. Like their other models, the belt’s performance webbing stretches and moves with you, and its buckle is metal-free so you don’t have to take it off at TSA checkpoints.

Arcade Belts’ stretchy REPREVE yarn provides support with more comfort than stiffer belts, and their metal-free buckle won’t slow you down at airport security. Plus they can stay in your pants while washing and drying. Their Adventure Collection includes some great designs inspired by nature and outdoor living.

It’s not often that belts do more than keep your pants from falling down. We’re grateful for that, but also very much like that Arcade Belts helps fund nationwide wildfire prevention through sales of three vintage-inspired Smokey Bear belt styles. Smokey’s also good to have around in case your pants are on fire.

An ordinary belt might look nice, but a quality tactical belt is designed to do more than just hold your pants up. Everyday Carry selected some of the best tactical belts on the market, with an eye toward ones that can hold the weight of a firearm and its holster for safe concealed carry in places where it’s legal to do so.

MGear’s unique EDC pouch is designed to attach to a belt and provides storage for small items like pills, coins, small tools, or spare keys. Its side panels are made from real carbon fiber, held together with genuine leather. Its inside dimensions are approximately 70 mm x 52 mm x 16 mm.

Argali’s unique belt is ideal for hunting, fishing, and other outdoor adventures. It’s not only comfortable, but it can sharpen knives, broadheads, and fishing hooks. It incorporates a 6″ vegetable-tanned leather strop, tungsten carbide sharpening bar, and an 800-grit diamond plate along the back of its buckle.

Unless you’re into suspenders, you need a belt to keep your pants from falling down. And if you want a belt that goes beyond the ordinary, head to Everyday Carry and check out their selection of durable belts made with materials like carbon fiber, titanium, and tactical webbing, and features like cash storage and magnetic buckles.

Inspired by the Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door, maker JLaservideo created a sword that stores like a belt. The tempered steel weapon works like a tape measure, bending around his waistline, then maintaining a semi-rigid shape when deployed. We’d be afraid of cutting ourselves pulling it out of its sheath.

When is a belt not a belt? The BeltBro answers that question by holding pants up in an unconventional way. Rather than wrapping around your entire beltline, it straps between two belt loops and cinches pants around your waist. It won’t dig into your gut as a regular belt can. Comes in three lengths for different loop spacing.

Founded by a firefighter, Ladder 34 creates rugged belts using decommissioned fire hoses. Not only do they look great and tell a story, every purchase helps support the mental health and equipment needs of volunteer firefighters. Be sure to check out their shop for other cool items made from the same distinctive material.

FosterWeld’s distressed steel belt buckle features an abstract skull with a couple of screwy lop-sided eyeballs. But there’s a reason for the crazy hex eyes. The bigger one doubles as a bottle opener. They also sell some handsome leather belts if you need one to go with.

Westwell’s modern belts incorporate interchangeable tools into their buckles. The Voyager packs flat-blade and phillips screwdrivers on the tips of its fastener bars, as well as wrenches and a bottle opener on its main section. The minimal Clicker incorporates a magnetic hex bit holder and a bottle opener.