F‑utility: What the Humble Belt Teaches us About Anti-fashion

For a long time, the belt was, in fact, not fash­ion at all, and — in a world where avant garde has had its way with most — the lone­ly belt sat, coiled, I’d soon­er like to think, as a last bal­last of puri­ty and dwin­dling lamp­light of ‘seri­ous­ness’. Yet, fash­ion and its cul­ture has, in recent years, made so intent its feud with func­tion­al­i­ty and beau­ty that, it may come as no great shock, the belt’s coiled peace was to be perturbed.

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