Does anyone else suck at wearing belts?
ASOS Square Buckle Skinny Boyfriend Belt
I must be missing the gene, because every time I try to add a belt to my outfit, it only seems to make things worse.
Belt mastery is the highest form of fashion-fu.
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Mighty Girl 
AH-greed. I suck at belt-wearing, but that first one makes me want to practice.
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I look horrible in belts. I know they’re supposed to give you a waist, but they only succeed in making me look matronly.
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Yes, somehow they succeed in not only making me look matronly, but making me sweat around the middle so I feel matronly. Not hot.
Well, hot. But, not hawt.
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I completely suck at belts. I know that they are supposed to do amazing things, but I can’t make them do those things. Somehow they make me feel less feminine (manly even) and that they are highlighting the fact that I don’t have a waist.
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Agreed! Belts seem to accentuate my love handles without bringing any definition to my waist. I see girls wearing them and I think they’re so cute, but any time I try them on myself, it’s terrible!
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Thrilled to hear someone else has this issue. I love belts, think they’re adorable, even OWN some, and yet, can’t ever leave the house comfortably with one on. (Unless it’s to hold my pants up.) I feel like a fashion failure.
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Preachin to the choir. They either make my wobbly bits pudge out everywhere or they fall off. I just bought a new one from Ann Taylor Loft. I have no idea what to do with it.
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Thank god someone said it out loud. I cannot do belts. I have one dress that I purchased a wild purple and black dress that came with a belt. It was the hilt of matchy-matchy. One day out of sheer exasperation with the awfulness of the belt, I looped it with a string of costume beads of my grandmother’s. It was perfection. I have since lost the beads. Sigh.
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I think I’m just shaped “wrong” for belts. It makes me look so… weird! I don’t know why!
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I know, I have the same problem. I’m lucky enough to be naturally slim, but belts just make my ass look enormous! However, this doesn’t seem to stop me buying them. It’s like I refuse to admit that I just can’t do belts, I have to believe that I simply haven’t found the right one yet. The search continues…
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Is there some kind of evening class I can sign up to learn how to be the kind of woman who knows what to do with a a belt? There should be…
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I agree with Tina – belts have a negative impact on my image and self-image. Altogether bad. What else to do? I might start using them to hold together groups of things – suitcases, books, cartons of soy milk. This could work.
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Yup. I fail hardcore at belts. And my waist is actually the smallest point of me, but they make me look like I have a beer gut. It’s sad, because I like them so much and I don’t know WHY they don’t like me back…
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Amen to that! I thought I was the only one. Of course I have that friend who is the ultimate belt master..it just comes easy to her.
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So bad at belts. Last night I picked up three to try on and when I got to the dressing room I didn’t even bother.
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This post makes me feel profound relief. I thought I was all alone. Belts either push my belly fat up or down – either way it’s ugly. I love the idea of belts but, sigh, don’t think we’re meant to be.
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Love them in theory, LOATHE them in practice. The belt is a lie!!
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I am not belt-enabled. They do amazing things for my body, but I always feel like a complete goober.
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See also: scarves
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Belts tie shapeless outfits together and make you look slimmer and so much more pulled together. Come to the belt side, we have curves.
Check out the super-smart ladies over at academichic (http://www.academichic.com/)- they have inspired me to add belts to so many more of my outfits. I wear them 5-6 days of the week now! So many creative ideas there.
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I have a beautiful Japanese obi style belt that a close friend gave me years ago. It hangs in my closet, taunting me. The beautiful, intricate fabric deserves a relatively blank canvas to shine against, but I just can never tie it properly, of find the right combination (top and skirt, dress?) to wear it with. Sigh.
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I cannot do belts. I’m short, and hippy and assy.
Belt around hips? HUGER HIPS. Not good. Belt around waist? Goodbye waist.
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I’m with Ariel. Belts are very hard to do if you’re short and curvy with a short torso. They bring too much attention to all the wrong things, particularly the lack of space between the bottom of the boobs and the top of everything else.
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You and me both, sister. Though I suck at accessorizing in general too.
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I actually DO have the figure for belts, and I’m still at a loss.
Once in a while I make them look good with the outfit, but then so often I have this problem: skirt, top, belt in middle. Belt spends the day sootching, untucking top, makeing me look like a disaster.
THOUGH! I got a leather wrap belt in Italy. Awesome. No scootching, and as long as it’s a once peice dress or somthing? Raddddd.
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Ariel + Kristen, being tall and curvy and short-waisted does not make belt-wearing any easier. I gave up a long time ago.
Maggie, I am sure that by fashion-fu you meant a delicious play on words for martial arts and such. I read it as Fashion-F-U (spelled out) and I think belts are the ultimate F U from fashion to me. I am chagrined.
Scarves – on the other hand – I LOVE. Scarves have floaty movement, and bring the eye wherever they are (which is never around my hips or waist or thighs, dreams of being a belly-dancer notwithstanding). Scarves are a fashion-high-five.
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Is that model at the top a Jedi?
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I suck at belts and scarves and pretty much all accessories.
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Thank you! I can’t do belts, have never done belts, for many of the reasons listed above. They make me feel masculine, or accentuate my tummy, or somehow shorten my torso. ugh. Can’t do. I thought it was just me. So nice to know I am not alone.
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Me too! I can’t do them. My theory is because my waist is too short.
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