Our Story

   The story of our belts began over 50 years ago when a teenage Stan and a friend were on an excursion to New York’s Greenwich Village. At the time there were over 15 leather shops on Bleecker Street in the heart of the Village selling leather vests, hats, sandals, jackets and belts. At one shop Stan spotted a belt with a gracefully curved brass buckle. He bought it and it became his favorite belt. He wore it for many years and then lost track of it. Years later during another trip to Bleecker St. he stopped at the last leather shop still in business on Bleecker St.. and there on the wall behind the counter was that same beautifully curved brass buckle, as if it were waiting for him all these years. He bought it along with a leather strap. Making use of the engineering and construction skills he had acquired in the intervening years he set himself the task of figuring out how to improve on the buckle and create the best belt in the world.  And that takes the story to a U.S. patent and now to you. 

   At least, that's Stan's hope.