1.5-Inch 4-Clip Suspenders

Description

The webbing is 70 percent polyester and 30 percent elastic, joined with wear-resisting synthetic leather at the crosspatch, and the hardware is two heavy duty metal adjusters and four heavy duty metal clips. The load-bearing parts are metal throughout. It is a plainly specified brace with the money spent on hardware rather than pattern. Four clips rather than three means the front straps run parallel down to the waistband instead of meeting at a single point, which keeps the pull even across the back.

Nine colours cover most wardrobes: black, brown, navy, burgundy, white, grey, camel, tan and a hunter green. It is a straightforward brace, equally usable with trousers, jeans or shorts, and it is bought for weddings, work and party dress as often as for ordinary days. The X-back keeps the straps from sliding off the shoulders when you move, and the wider webbing distributes weight rather than concentrating it the way a skinny strap does. Camel, tan and hunter green are the ones that break away from a standard suit palette.

The adjustable range runs from 30 to 48 inches, which covers a broad spread of heights and builds from one size. Metal adjusters hold their setting rather than creeping, and the elastic content lets the straps give when you reach or bend without the trousers moving with you. The synthetic leather at the join is the part that takes the strain when the braces are pulled on, and it is built to resist wear rather than crack. Once the two adjusters are set, the braces can be pulled on and off over the head without touching them again.

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