Belt

The belt has many uses:

• Provides a place to attach your tankard or drinking horn
• Holds favours
• a place to hang your pouch or mobile phone
• keeps your t-tunic tidy
• for having belt fights with
• can tuck up long skirts/tabards out of the mud

The decorative form that women wear with their dresses, often made of cloth and embroidered, is known as a girdle.

In the SCA, a distinctly white belt is reserved for knights. Other colours are commonly used for squires (red), apprentices (green) and proteges (yellow), but this is just a tradition, not a rule. Contrary to common SCA belief, period belts often had buckles, and were not just straps of leather with a metal ring attached. Belts with buckles can be seen in illuminated manuscripts, and as a heraldic charge.