I got the belt sized correctly this morning. It's masking-taped together because you never EVER want to cut something you don't have a back-up of until you're sure WTF you're doing.
I managed to slide it off still taped into position, but it was a tough thing. As I lost weight I re-discovered my lack of ass, but it's something of a boon here because I just need a LITTLE give to the belt, rather than having to install a zipper and attach it to like 4 different materials and not have it gap/sag/wibble/etc.
My thought right now is to glue the belt entirely together in the back, after cutting it on the appropriate diagonal. I have vinyl I can cut and glue to the belt pieces for extra support as well. The front will be trickier. Haruhi's belt crosses over with the right side overlapping the left. Underneath that overlap I'm going to--instead of gluing the bits to each other--glue a small piece of not-very-elastic elastic to each part of the belt. Ideally, this will give the belt a bit of lee-way when I want it (I intend to remove it before entering bathroom stalls and when in a car, for instance) but not cause the belt to flip open or bend in weird ways when I don't need it to. We'll see how that goes.
~Raiphin
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