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Belts in the Middle Ages were usually just a long, narrow strip of leather with a buckle attached at the end. Belts served an important function and often a pouch would hang from the belt to carry oddments and some kind of utility knife. Ladies often wore long strips of beautifully woven textile. Towards the later half of the 14th century, the upper classes began to wear belts with gaudy plaques and other ornamentation made of bronze and other alloys attached to the belt. These �plaque-belts� were not worn around the natural waist but were worn down around the hips to produce a longer waistline, then known as hip-belts.
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