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Longer reads from the CHAOREN studio

Three pieces written because the same questions kept arriving. Every source is named with the date we read it, and every number comes from our own range rather than from somewhere else.

What a belt label is allowed to say, and what it leaves out

What a belt label is allowed to say, and what it leaves out

Full-grain, top-grain, genuine, bonded. Four words that sound like grades of the same thing and are not.

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The waist number on a belt is not your trouser size

The waist number on a belt is not your trouser size

Two inches, one buckle, and the commonest reason a belt arrives too short.

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Buying a belt a child will actually fasten

Buying a belt a child will actually fasten

A belt a child cannot work alone is a belt that lives in a drawer. That is a design question, not a discipline one.

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Belts built around a click buckle instead of a row of punched holes, so the fit moves in fractions of an inch rather than whole ones.

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