Belt Buckles

As fashion merged into one unanimous look in the 70s (denim flares and decal tees), your badge of pride was a huge metal belt buckle, displayed front and centre.

A throwback to the golden age of bong-hit stadium rock, when high school kids donned these weighty buckles to identify themselves in the crowd and find solidarity with others of their kind. Did you listen to KISS or Styx? Drink Miller or Pabst? Were you a Yankee or a Dixie? 

Other belt buckles also became very popular; Marijuana leaves, confederate flags, beer companies, "Keep on truckin'" etc.

Borrowed from truckers (and a relic from an era when people actually tucked their shirt in), the combination of larger than life brown leather belts and metal buckles was a perfect balance to the wide legs of denim flares.