A good belt is hard to find. To paraphrase a friend, there is a plethora of inexpensive belts that are the equivalent of white broadcloth dress shirts (yawn) and a number of expensive, somewhat showy exotics (I am thinking alligator and crocodile here). A selection in what should be the belted sweet spot – beautifully made things in tasteful leathers – took me a year of searching.
Introducing the Taurillon Galuchat belts on the
ASW store. Straps from the beautifully tanned, lightly textured hides of 20 month-old French bulls are paired with a nickel buckle. Feather edged, 1 1/4" (35mm) wide and with a leather lining so it wears more comfortably than single layered belts. Offered in three colorways.
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I didn't write that they are not tasteful, but they are usually considered more appropriate for sportswear.
Will, I have mostly dark brown shoes... loafers and oxfords... I assume the coco/chocolate color would be appropriate?
Yes, if I had named the color I would have called it espresso.
Hi Will, They're good looking belts but is not confusing to use the word Galuchat when describing them ?
They don't really look like galuchat / shagreen, and considering what you said in the very same post about other exotics like croc etc, the idea seems internally inconsistent.
You'll get no argument from me Keith. That's what the maker calls them but I probably should re-name them.
Is the buckle really nickel? When a buckle is called "brass" the name normally refers to the golden alloy of copper and zinc.
I have found many buckles that are called "nickel" are really some shiny white metal that happens to be not silver.
Real nickel (and nickel plate) has a distinctive faint golden color that goes very well with most leathers.
For that price, I expect the real thing
Yep. It's nickel.
If nothing else, I agree with Hardy Aimes that a man should spend the most he can on a decent belt.
Interestingly, goatskin with a shagreen grain to it is known in French as chevre chagrin. I've never heard galuchat applied to anything but stingray shagreen but there's a first for anything.
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