Belts & Small Leather

Two brothers in Piraeus, one of whom does the cutting and neither of whom will discuss which. Cut to length in the shop while you wait.

Come in for a fitting

A belt is the most badly sold object in fashion. It is stocked in three lengths, none of which is yours, with a buckle chosen by whoever bought the leather, and it is priced as though the hardware were the expensive part. The hardware is never the expensive part.

Ours come as a strap and a buckle, separately. The strap is vegetable-tanned hide from a Piraeus workshop, cut to your measurement on the counter, punched in front of you and finished in about eight minutes. The buckle you choose — there are five, three of them made by the same silversmith who does the jewellery upstairs.

How the fitting works

We measure over what you wear it withNot your waist. A belt worn over a coat and a belt worn through trouser loops are two different lengths, and this is the part that everybody gets wrong buying online.
Choose the strapFour widths, five colours, and one that is not dyed at all and will go the colour of your hands over about two years.
Choose the buckleFive, three of them silver from Solonos. They unscrew, so a strap outlives a buckle and a buckle outlives three straps.
Eight minutesCut, punched, edge-burnished and stamped inside with the date. Bring it back at any point to be re-punched, for nothing, for as long as you own it.

The rest of the small leather

Card cases

One piece of hide folded twice with no lining and no stitching on the fold. Four colours. The thing we sell most of at Christmas.

Long wallets

Cut for notes rather than cards, because Greek cash has not gone anywhere whatever anybody says.

Key rings

Made from the offcut of the belt strap you just bought, if you want one, for €12. About a third of people say yes.

Passport covers

Vegetable-tanned, unstamped, and they mark within a week. That is the point and we say so before you buy.

Repairs and re-punching

Free, forever, on anything from this workshop. Edge re-burnishing is €10 and worth doing at about year five.

What we do not do

Monogramming, contrast stitching, and anything in patent. Two of those we could sell and one of them we could not.