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{style inspiration: knotted belts}

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. . . this morning’s walk with the dog was already quite blustery, calling for a belted cardigan, a favourite combination at this time of year, and especially if the belt is beautifully and artfully knotted, as these from rilleau . . .

created out of necessity during the second world war, when metal production [along with petrol and sugar] was diverted to the war effort, causing the unavailability of metal buckles, [normally made of brass, nickel and iron or steel], these knotted belts also have no rivets or stitches, and each is cut freehand, without a pattern, and hand finished — wouldn’t they be lovely against pale pink cashmere?


{images: rilleau leather via n’est style; shown from top, the tapered belt & the knotted belt}

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