You may know Bleu de Chauffe for its bags, but you best believe their offering is expanding by the week. The brand has dropped tees, sweaters, and jackets of the highest quality in the last couple of years, but today we’re looking at their roster of unique and responsibly-made belts.
Bleu de Chauffe’s rage of belts is underpinned by three core styles: the Manille, the Manchette, and the Cliquet. Each style has a different inspiration, but every belt is hand-crafted in France using high-quality, chrome-free, vegetable-tanned leather and suede.
The Manille is a workwear-inspired belt with a 35mm wide strap. Coming in black, natural, and pain brule aka ‘burnt bread’, the best thing about the Manille is its buckle. Made from nickel coated brass, this rustic buckle is inspired by boat shackles with its pins and lugs. More charm is added with engraved Bleu de Chauffe branding on the rim.
The Manchette is another workwear-inspired style, but with a more ornate buckle inspired by curved metal wires. Coming in slightly slimmer than the Manille at 32mm, the Manchette is slightly daintier but still rugged as hell.It’s available in the same trio of vegetable-tanned leathers as the Manille, but with a brass-colored branded buckle.
Last but not least is the Cliquet, Bleu de Chauffe’s woven belt style. This silhouette blends woven belts seen threading through linen belt loops on the Côte d’Azur with the ruggedness of the tool shed. The woven strap is slim-ish at 32mm but the buckle is inspired by ratchet straps you’d usually find in a garage. The result is a woven belt you can pair with pretty much anything, from work pants to suit trousers and everything in between. Full leather versions of the Cliquet come in brown, black, and burnt bread, while suede options come in brown, black, and honey.
Each Bleu de Chauffe belt offers something different, which is what we’ve come to expect from the French label — well-crafted, elevated staples with their unique touch.
Shop the full collection starting at $82 over at Bleu de Chauffe.
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