Somewhere near the bottom of the list of gear we analyze for functionality and style, you'll find belts. Typically, the go-to leather or nylon webbing belts that orbit your waist during everyday life are equally serviceable on a rock wall, hiking trail, or atop a carbon fiber full-suspension mountain bike. But Arcade believes there's a better way. The company wants to up your belt game by combining Repreve, a post-consumer recycled yarn, with natural rubber to provide a highly elastic belt that’s comfortable during activity while still superbly secure at its primary task: keeping those pants up!
If you’re entrenched in the ski world at all, you’ve likely heard of Arcade adventure belt founder Cody Townsend, who launched the brand with his Tahoe co-founders Tristan Queen and David Bronkie in 2010. The three skiers collectively identified a need for a web belt that kept ski pants firmly in place while keeping pow from creeping in and with a belt buckle that wouldn’t dig into their stomachs. Since then, the brand’s stretchy belts have reached well outside of the ski world into other avenues of sport, like rock climbing, mountain biking, and even skate.