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@BringMeMyFix
I remember leaving home in 1991, going veggie, and starting to have qualms about leather goods. The belt – being the only trouser-holding-up device in my possession – had to stay, but I hoped it would give me years of loyal service... job done!
(It was also used in emergency repairs to protect a quill-type headset nut whilst being attacked with an ill-fitting monkey wrench - oh! the naïve whimsy and mechanical ne savoir faire pas of my halcyon youth...)