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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThis afternoon I finally took off my disintegrating black alligator belt and mailed it in for repairs. The belt was made by Bob Childs of House of Fleming in Atlanta. My dad bought it from Bob in 1982, and specifically requested the gator-covered buckle that is, as far as I'm concerned, the difference-maker. I inherited it two years ago, and haven't gone a day without wearing it since. These days, Bob is best known for the belts he makes for Tiger Woods and pretty much everyone else on the PGA tour--that business took off for him in the 1990s. But my dad and I go back a little further with House of Fleming: When I was a kid, Bob used to give me scraps of gator hide when we'd go by to order or pick up a new belt or wallet. And dad and Bob have been known to take down a bottle of red wine in the workshop around Christmas time. Besides the buckle, the key to this belt is that it's belly-cut, meaning it's made of one long contiguous strip of gator hide, not several stitched together. The belt held up for thirty years, and obviously the hard-earned patina is exactly what I love about it. So it's only begrudgingly that I'm now having the repairs made. Frankly, I'm already looking forward to the day when it looks exactly like this again. I suppose that'll be when it turns sixty, in 2042."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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