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Pants Cinch

 An alternative to wearing a belt.
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Sometimes when wearing pants that are a size or two too large in the waist, a belt which is a necessary accompaniment, folds over the material usually near the fly, when tightened.

This same effect can be had without the belt, but instead with a Pant Cinch. This simple device is designed to look like a belt buckle, but simply clips over the folded material reducing the overall circumference of the pants.

This is a rather heavy-duty clip that can withstand the innumerable forces that threaten to pull down one's pants throughout the day.

—rcarty, Jan 10 2011

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       So tacky it's cool?
—rcarty, Jan 10 2011
   

       [+] bun for wishing I had this problem!!
—xandram, Jan 10 2011
   

       Sounds like you got a lot of forces trying to pull your pants down. Maybe you should work on eliminating *them* first. Me thinks.
—blissmiss, Jan 10 2011
   

       You could use the same idea for trousers, as well!
—pocmloc, Jan 10 2011
   

       No gravity, no plumbers crack.
Simples.		   

       You could use a safety pin, but chances are it would look like a safety pin.
—saprolite, Jan 13 2011
   

       Ccan I point out that a jumbo tie-wrap, looped through two adjacent belt-loops and pulled tight, performs this function admirably?   

       Incidentally, initial testing has shown that the adjacent belt- loops should not be those on either side of the zip.
—MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 15 2011
   

       No, but I have an enviable collection of belt-loops.
—MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 15 2011
   

       Enviable by who, exactly ?
—8th of 7, Jan 15 2011
   

       By the gullible fool to whom I sold all my trousers, mainly.
—MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 15 2011
   

       I'm still renting the pockets on these ones.
—rcarty, Jan 15 2011
   

       Many red-blooded guys would kill for innumerable forces trying to pull their pants down.
—nineteenthly, Jan 15 2011
   

       [+] I can see the product being marketed towards parents of children with clothes that they'll "grow into" and the like: clips shaped like daisies, rocketships or a faux-cellphone or something.   

       Maybe grown-ups could be conned into buying a pair for themselves in case their waistline decides to recede (which doesn't happen but that's hardly the marketing department's fault).
—FlyingToaster, Jan 15 2011
   

       // a jumbo tie-wrap//   

       I think the problem here was brought up earlier   

       //The appearance of a beltless buckle would be rather tacky, I would think.//   

       Buuuut... I think if it were marketed right, it'd still work.
—thejehosephat, Jan 15 2011
   

       How about subdermally implanted pop-fasteners?
—MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 15 2011
   


 

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