NEW STYLE BELTS BOY'S

August 15, 2016

Belts have been documented as male clothing since the Bronze Age. Both genders have used them off and on, depending on the current fashion. In the eastern world, sometimes belts were given to non-Muslims to show they paid the protection tax or Jizya belts. or a Sash were used to identify non-Muslims by always dressing in the same manner, wherever they go, with binding the zunar (a kind of belt) around the waists. Christians to wear blue belts or turbans, Jews to wear yellow belts or turbans, Zoroastrians to wear black belts or turbans, and Samaritans to wear red belts or turbans. These Zunār (زنار) belts under Dhimmitude were required to wear in order to differentiate themselves from Muslims. The requirement to wear it were dictated by Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, the second Rightly-guided Caliph, and formed one of his many "well-known conditions" in the Pact of Umar (637 AD).[1] The yellow badge that was to be eventually used by the Nazis as a badge of shame against the Jews was actually first introduced by a Muslim caliph in Baghdad in the 9th century as a variant of the zunār. This then spread to the western world during medieval times.[2] In the western world, belts have been more common for men, with the exception of the early Middle Ages, late 17th century Mantua, and skirt/blouse combinations between 1900 and 1910. Art Nouveau belt buckles are now collectors' items.