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#1 2008-07-30 08:30:42
- Taylor McIntyre
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Canterbury Belts -
http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Braided-Leather-Canterbury-Available-Brown/dp/B000K9PCA4/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&qid=1217427837&sr=1-9
As sold in the Ivy Shop & J. Simons back in the day. I have a couple from the 80's and the quality is very fair I think.
Is this still the case?
Also I think that the brand comes from the South - Is that correct?
No snob appeal here, just nice belts. I have a Cordo Steerhide one with a nice solid Brass buckle of which I'm very fond.
Any other fans of this All American brand?
Thanks -
Jim
#2 2008-07-30 14:39:40
- Howard
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
I think Canterbury was owned by an entity other than Tandy Leather (Texas) in the brand's better days. It probably peaked in the '60s or '70s when it was a staple of most mid market men's specialty stores. Standard small town accessible "Ivy" of the era.
Canterbury was often the casual range with Hickock(sp?) being a tad more expensive dress belt, often in real crocogator. Hickock also made small leather accessories.
Canterbury may have marketed leather-tab striped surcingle watch bands and leather-framed striped surcingle center wallets and pocket secretaries. Canterbury belts were often leather tab surcingle and US type bridle leather. Various equestrian motifs. Canterbury belts were earlier US versions of the more recent UK Regent Belt Co. belts. All the Canterbury stuff was UK country/county inspired, as the name would indicate. Relatively down-market Swaine-Adeney style tack shop US versions.
Current Canterbury lines are often found in discount stores. No longer ubiquitous.
www.beltoutlet.com/halebebycaav.html (Could be made in China)
( www.tandyleatherfactory.com )
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Corporation )
#3 2008-07-31 01:33:23
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
Thanks Howard - I knew you'd know!
Cheers -
#4 2008-08-02 09:24:14
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
Take this for what it's worth, which is not much, but I don't think ever seen anyone wearing recognizably Ivy items with one of these belts. This isn't to say you that couldn't make it work aesthetically; I just don't think I've seen it done. I identify it more with people who are into workwear of the type featured at times on A Continuous Lean.
#5 2008-08-02 09:30:09
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
The braided belts I linked to in the top post are considered very Classic Traditional American over here. Not remotely English in style although English versions (of better quality) are available.
We see Traditional American style from an English point of view as being rather relaxed & casual when compared to Traditional English style.
A cultural thing?
#7 2008-08-02 10:49:29
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
The great thing is that you may very well know best. In fact I bet you do.
I've seen these belts on American tourists over here with their Blazers & Khakis, but what is worn on holiday and what is worn in everyday life can be very different.
From my English POV I've seen these belts in American import shops over here and so have made an association with them based on that. I have never seen an engine turned Silver belt buckle in a US import shop over here - A style which I know to be well within the cannon of the classic American look but one which in England is condemned as being flashy and vulgar despite it's Brooksy provenanace.
- Cultural stuff once more.
Interesting.
Best -
#8 2008-08-02 11:11:52
- shuman
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
They may not be Trad by the 2004 definition, but I remember wearing braided leather belts throughout the late 80s and early 90s. For some reason, I got away from it, but I know it was very popular in my high school and college crowd as traditional wear with jeans and khakis.
#9 2008-08-03 16:36:20
- Howard
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
Ironically, braided bridle leather belts with equestrian brass (preferably antiqued) buckles are an English tack shop look. No casual belting could be more mid 20th century American Ivy than an English tack shop bridle, braided bridle or bridle-tabbed surcingle belt.
Where found now, genuine UK made English bridle leather belts are relatively expensive.
www.je-sedgwick.co.uk
www.purdey.com/store/product/36042/17/accessories/gifts/leather-belt
www.cadoganandcompany.co.uk/erol.html#350X1841
A moderately priced current U.S. source of "English" bridle leather actually tanned in the U.S. using similar tanning processes. www.leathergoodsconnection.com/brlebe.html The color referenced as dark brown would be "Havana" in a tack shop and the natural is "London" in tack talk. (London can sometimes have a yellowish tint.) Darker medium brown's Chestnut.......as they are so termed by the relatively inexpensive "Skip" www.leatherbeltsbyskip.com/pages/english-bridle.html
Eureka! www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=5896 Compare that to something from Purdey
#11 2009-04-26 04:29:15
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
Just bought a reversible one: blue one side, white the other. White watch strap, white bucks: summer foolin' around. The belt doesn't even have to be seen: mango Sero or Madras falling just an inch or so below.
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#14 2010-04-08 10:49:16
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#16 2010-04-10 12:43:38
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Canterbury Belts -
^ Wonderful input. My thanks,
Best -
Jim
#17 2010-04-11 18:11:27
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"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#19 2010-04-13 08:11:06
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#21 2010-04-13 08:22:17
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April 13th 2010 - the day the manufacturers stepped up.
What's next? Forum exclusives?
#23 2010-04-13 09:03:45
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"Mr. Weejun is a beast." 1966
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#25 2010-04-14 06:18:54
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