My cargo-weave belt got used for the final time on Wednesday. By the time I got back from my long walk in the evening, I saw that the Coupang package containing my new belt had arrived. My old belt had served me faithfully the past couple of years; after the belt's metal fastener snapped off, I jury-rigged a (rather ugly) solution using a drywall screw, some tape, and some elastic bands. Wednesday afternoon, I re-jury-rigged the belt using brads that I had bought from a stationery store in our building. The holes in the belt's leather and fabric were too wide to use the brads without help (the brads could easily slip through the holes), so I affixed a felt chair-leg bottom—one of those sticky ones that you slap under the feet of chairs to prevent the chairs from making noise when you drag them across the floor. I punched a hole in the felt to allow the brad's metal legs to pass through the holes; with the brad now threaded through the belt, I peeled apart the brad's legs to keep the brad from falling out, then I wrapped some rubber bands around the belt to keep everything in place.
The newly jury-rigged belt worked even better than before:
But once I got back to my place, I knew the time had come to say goodbye to the cargo-weave belt: the new belt had arrived. I was in for a bit of a surprise, though.
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| As is typical for Korean packages, this one was over-wrapped in layers of plastic. |
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| The unwrapping continues. |
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| It looks like another cargo-weave belt, but... |
I must have missed something in the writeup about this product because, even though it looks like a cargo-weave belt, it's actually some sort of elastic weave. Not that I'm complaining: it's just a little weird, is all. The belt has no holes: the buckle's prong is supposed to slip through the weave at any point once you've cinched the belt tightly enough, so in theory, the belt is infinitely adjustable. While that's sort of cool in itself, it means I'm going to need to devise another system for measuring my waist size. I used to count belt holes, but how do you count belt holes on a belt with no obvious holes?
Upshot: I have a new, stretchy belt. I guess it goes well with my stretchy Skechers shoes.
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