Easy-Fit Underbelt

Description

The Wilderness Underbelt is meant to be worn as a pants belt beneath an overbelt. A system to lock the two belts together for more stability with mating hook and loop material on both belts may also be set up by choosing the different fasteners for the inside of the outer belt and the face of the underbelt. Our Underbelt, Instructor, Frequent Flyer, LowPro EDC, or Swift belts all feature the option of adding either extra hook or loop to their inside or outside for this purpose. Many law enforcement duty belts also feature hook or loop pile on their inside face.

While it has only minimal load-bearing capability, our underbelt also makes a very comfortable, low-profile daily sport belt on its own.

Available in both 1.5″ and 1.25″ width. Black only.

Belt Sizing

*We strongly recommend using a measuring tape to check your correct size. Your pants size is not your correct belt size and is usually off by at least 2″, and we have found that the markings on other belts are not always accurate. Please read and use our belt sizing guide.

If your measured belt size is over 50″ we strongly encourage you to check out the Easy-Fit belts. Their simplified sizing offers extra range of adjustment which makes correct sizing easier. This is important both to the belt doing its job for you and because the higher size ranges are custom and non-returnable.

Custom Size Notes: 46″-49″ add $5.00, 50″-59″ add $10.00, 60″-69″ add $15.00, 70″-79″ add $20.00 on all belts (please call for 60″+ orders for advice on belt style); 46″ and larger, or 32″ and smaller, are custom made and non-returnable.

CLICK HERE FOR IMPORTANT BELT SIZING INSTRUCTIONS

What is Easy-Fit Sizing?

The Easy-Fit belts offer simplified sizing for those who don’t mind an extra length of belt tongue on their dominant side. Note that the extra tongue length my interfere with strongside holsters. However, the belts have no incorrect orientation and the tongue may be run either right or left-facing to deconflict with belt-mounted gear.

Some competing belts achieve a wider, more generic sizing range just by adding more hook-and-loop fastener to the belt body. However, this makes you pull hook fastener through the buckle at the smaller size. We didn’t like that and engineered ours to avoid it.

Available in Medium-15X, the Easy-Fit Instructor Belt still has all of the quality features of the standard version, such as double-layer construction and heavy-duty sewing. The Easy-Fit system also makes sizing for gifts much easier.

Standard belt properly fitted:

• 38″ size: 36″ – 39.5″ range of adjustment
• 11″ of tongue (at the min. length) / 9″ of tongue (when properly fitted)
• 3.5″ of adjustment range

Easy-Fit:

• Large: 36″ – 41″ range of adjustment
• 13″ of tongue (at min. length) / 10″ of tongue (at the median when properly fitted)
• 5″ of adjustment range

Why don’t we size all of our belts that way? All of our regular belts are designed to be compatible with holsters and accessories with proper fitting. When the belts are precisely sized for a given waist measurement, the tongue of the belt goes to the center of the 10″ loop fastener on the belt, leaving room on the belt for holsters or other gear. The Easy-Fit model has a longer tongue and more hook-and-loop fastener, so it may overlap the belt to the extent that it limits things that can be put on that side of the belt where the tongue overlaps. While the Easy-Fit is just as capable of load carrying, it does not offer as much dominant-side area as the precise-sized belts, which are our personal preference when practical. This may or may not be a problem for you depending upon your holster or personal preference, but we want our customers to know the potential conflict when making their choice.

Added Hook and Loop Options

We now offer the option of adding hook or loop fastener to the inside or outside of most of our belts. This helps to secure many hook or loop fastener-lined duty belts and warbelts in place when using ours as an underbelt. When used on the inside, it can help lock our belt into place when using it over a hook or loop fastener-lined underbelt on your pants. Some pouches also feature hook or loop inside of their belt loops to aid in keeping them in place.

*Note that this option makes the belt a custom order which is non-returnable. Correct sizing is even more vital than usual, so please look at our sizing guide videos for proper fitment here. **The slight added thickness and stiffness of the hook or loop fastener may not allow the belt body to fit through very tight belt channels on some holsters and accessory pouches.