Thursday 13 August 2009

Sheriff Star or US Marshall Belt Buckle

Sheriff star belt buckle
It's all gone a bit wrong these days. My childhood was built around movies like war films and westerns.

We had pistols that fired caps. These came in green or red rolls (with little black dots of powder) that you loaded into your sixshooter and put in your holster.

Grubby knees, cowboy hats, really bad american accents, plastic cowboys that came to bits so you could put their arms and heads on back to front.

There were plastic horses you couln't paint cos they were all greasy from your fingers. There were forts and good guys and bad guys and Sheriff badges.

Today...
Kids can't buy plastic guns any more. Gunpowder caps are probably subject to Health and Safety red tape and the (original) milky bar kid's ridden off into the sunset.

But we can still pretend to be a US Marshal or Sheriff (or a Texas Ranger). We've got a great sheriff star belt buckle for this.

There's no lettering on this polished metal star, so you can wear it and pretend to be whoever you want to be - the sheriff of Tombstone or the Deadwood Marshal.

Don't think you need to go with the face hair though. Some of those dudes grew some serious moustaches!

Thursday 6 August 2009

Skull belt buckle (that doesn't grin)

Skull belt buckle with movable jaw
Bit gruesome this post!

While I was updating the info on this skull belt buckle it struck me that we (nearly) see skulls every day.

A face is just thin layer of skin, muscles n stuff. And behind that is a skull. Yikes.

While we're chatting about skulls (time for a rant)...

You read in a spooky novel about grinning skulls. They don't grin. There's nothing to grin with. It's the lips and muscles that do the grinning and a skull doesn't have lips, or muscles. Maybe a zombie might (if its lips haven't fallen off), but then that's a zombie head, not a zombie skull. I know it's just poetic license. Doesn't stop it being wrong.

I feel better now.

So anyway, this skull buckle has no lips or muscles but its jaw does open and close, which is neat.

Tuesday 4 August 2009

Nautical Star Belt Buckle in 7 colour options

Red and black nautical star belt buckle
Kind of apt that I've just added the nautical star belt buckle on another wet day. If this rain keeps up we'll be needing an ark. (I've got two robins and two pigeons in the garden - that's a start).

Anyway… Time for a new buckle.

This one has started off a new category for worldbelts.co.uk - Star Belt Buckles. NotBlue and black nautical star belt buckle the movie kind though. The photo here shows the newest buckle. It's a frame (decorated with scrolls) and a five point star, all in black with a colour highlight which you choose.

If you look around on the internet you'll see this star is just like the tattoo, which is similar to the star on a nautical compass (although that has 8 points).

Whatever its origins, this star belt buckle is a popular choice in the shop.

Glitter red and black nautical star belt buckle
06 Aug 09: And now we have a total of 7 of these buckles:-
Red & Black
Blue & Black
White & Black
Pink & Black
Red Glitter & Black (pictured)
Silver Glitter & Black
Gold Glitter & Black