Galactic Style Guide – Belts of the Galaxy

Welcome to the first installment of the Galactic Style Guide, a monthly series in which I will be collecting and curating many visual examples of a single type of in-universe item. Why am I doing this, you ask? Besides having a lot of time on my hands in quarantine, too often when we think of ‘Star Wars’, we limit ourselves to thinking only of the main cast of characters, with secondary or background characters falling by the wayside. In this series, I hope to turn an analytical eye towards the incredible variety that collectively creates the larger ‘galactic aesthetic’. To my knowledge, this sort of project has never been done before, and I suspect will likely prove very useful to those of you heading (once they reopen, post-pandemic) to Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge parks, which are becoming very accommodating of GFFA-style outfits (provided they don’t stray too close to those of main characters). By shining a spotlight on previously-overlooked designs, I hope OC cosplayers and potential ‘Batuu bounders’ will see that there are many more options for Star Wars style beyond copying Han, Luke, Leia, Lando, etc.
With that out of the way, for our first installment, we’re looking at BELTS. Let’s get started!

Note that while OT characters wear belts of ordinary nylon webbing (with ‘flare loops’ added) with this buckle, the modern era has reimagined them by pairing the buckle with the British PLCE belt (worn inside out, to show off the ridged interior for more visual interest):

So there we go! Are there any styles I’ve missed? What would you like to see covered in the next Conventions of Style installment? (In the future, I would like to pull more examples from non-film EU sources, but such sources are often very inconsistent). Drop a comment below, or come discuss in-depth with us on facebook, where I will also be cross-posting this series!

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