What is the use for all these double belts around the leg?
cherpenbeck
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Why do so many outfits contain these double belts around the lege (upper thighs, mostly). Sometimes, but not very often, they hold a weapon. But mostly they seem to do nothing except hindering movement (Do muscles really work properly if constricted by a double belt? Especially if his belt often is not attached to the girdle, so it has to be relatively tight so that it doesn't slide down). Is there any explanation besides just looking a bit decorative?
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Because it looks cool? lol Seriously though with weapons they are kind of necessary with a lot of the holster designs. I think the straps around the thighs maybe started from the "gunslinger" days.
As for their popularity in a lot of fantasy and sci-fi designs, I blame the 90's comics. lol The comic books in those days were all about the thigh belts and various straps and pouches. They had some major thigh game in the day... and what better way to show off those massive thighs than belts and straps around them?? lol :P
It was All About The Thighs, 'Bout the Thighs
...and tiny feet.
it also enhances the leg appearence in stilleto heels with cut out pants or an entire trouser leg missing
You can attach a sheath for a knife to those straps for stabbing convenience.
It helps you focus the totality of your telepathic powers
So it seems they are really just decorative most of the time. In that case, I put the in the same drawer as the stiletto heels and the armor which weigh so much that no sane person would even try to fight it, let alone heave these oversized weapons with chunks of metal rivaling an anvil.
The thigh belts should be for tying down a holster or a knife so it doesn't flap. Most of the time, people add those to costumes to make them look like sexy garters though and to break up the monotony of a boring set of leggings or a lack of pants down there.
The thigh strap and the corset belts are kinda overdone with DAZ content. If I want my outfits to look like sexy lingerie I would buy sexy lingerie, it's a bit weirdly monotonous when quite a bit of female armor all has that design.
Thigh belts *or* pockets. Not thigh belts *and* pockets. Department of redundancy department.
Most of the time I don't even wear pants. Just 25 thigh belts on each leg. Same thing.
Cause it just looks cool I guess. LOL
Laurie
My guess? They're easy to model, look cool and form a great and easy kit bash for the kinky fetish wear that DAZ doesn't allow wink wink. In the real world a lot of them would absolutely need garters of some kind given their placement, which is kind of ironic...
I could do without them (and many similar gadgets which IMO often spoils an otherwise great design), especially because often you can't hide them because they have shadows baked into the pant/or-whatever-is-under texture.
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On the other hand, that philosophy could also be the one behind all the skimpware, I guess.
Well played, sir/madam. Well played.
They help with aching joints, Like tennis elbow. You can buy them at wal-mart, but then they won't match the body armor that covers 2% of the femal character, And what fun would that be?
Because it helps me greatly ignoring such outfits.
If it has leg belts without any sheeth attached, it goes right into the "won't buy unless reduced to 99% off" department
And that's a perfectly good reason and the lack of an /s is intentional from me
You also have to remember that great design changes from person to person. Two people can look at the same thing and have way different opinions on it. And not everything has to be seen as a "fetish" since everytime people say something like that it always lowkey means "and can we not have that thing anymore?" Why not claim ugly cuts and color combinations are a fetish to discourage people from them?
"Do these belts make my thighs look fat? "
certainly a comicbook throwback from the 1990's
Stiletto heels are incredibly useful for getting free drinks.
Which is exactly why PAs should (and some indeed do) think a bit more about making it possible to hide all those extras, and provide more options in general, so everyone can have it their way. That would generate both more happy customers and more sales.
I blame Final Fantasy. It became so prevalent from FF7 (after Tetsuya Nomura took over character design) and up that it is a meme. Belts, pockets, zippers, there can never be too many!
He even gave famous Disney characters the zipper makeover for Kingdom Hearts.
And he still has no pants.
Personally, unless they're being used for something they tend to look silly.
I believe they also get free trips to hospital too.
I have a story about that but it's too soon.
No irony there at all.
Another possible reason for the thigh straps is to hold something that can be easily accesed by the hands while standing. That is the reason for tactical thigh holsters. it allows fast access to a weapon without a wasted movement that would be needed to reach a holster mounted to a belt on your waist.. I noticed a lot of the examples had pouches on them and seemed to have this idea in mind.
I was a '90s comics fan and that Superman with a black costume, long hair, lots of straps and belts and a pair of giant guns is simultaneously the least Superman thing ever and also the most 90s thing ever. The only thing that would have completed it woul dbe if it was drawn by Rob Liefeld and had lots of antomical anomalies and tiny or hidden feet.
And bigger guns, of course. Much bigger guns.
No no people these are obviously preventative tourniquets in case of slashes to the lower extremities!