03-25-2015, 07:51 PM
Crispvs.
I think like many others you are loosing the idea of what is the loop in this whole system of clothes fasteners it has nothing to do with the triangular part of the dress button cast integral with the button which is stitched into the inside of whatever garment it was used on, the loop is in fact a thong that goes over a button that comes from the other half or side of a garment such as shown by Graham earlier with his picture.
What you refer to as discs either side of a scabbard would appear to be two possible different style belt plates for there is no evidence whatever of what is on the underside of these discs to claim them to be such types of fasteners, and as you admit we do not know precisely how they were employed, but with them positioned on the belt either side of the scabbard with the buttons on the outside and the loops on the inside.
These things on the inside of a belt you refer to are in fact not loops at all but the right angle cast part of a button, if however there is pictorial evidence of the inside of this belt you refer to where is this evidence of them being what you suggest.
I think like many others you are loosing the idea of what is the loop in this whole system of clothes fasteners it has nothing to do with the triangular part of the dress button cast integral with the button which is stitched into the inside of whatever garment it was used on, the loop is in fact a thong that goes over a button that comes from the other half or side of a garment such as shown by Graham earlier with his picture.
What you refer to as discs either side of a scabbard would appear to be two possible different style belt plates for there is no evidence whatever of what is on the underside of these discs to claim them to be such types of fasteners, and as you admit we do not know precisely how they were employed, but with them positioned on the belt either side of the scabbard with the buttons on the outside and the loops on the inside.
These things on the inside of a belt you refer to are in fact not loops at all but the right angle cast part of a button, if however there is pictorial evidence of the inside of this belt you refer to where is this evidence of them being what you suggest.
Brian Stobbs
