Over the years we've commissioned a lot of art and worked with a lot of artists, each doing our own take on the Star Army uniforms. In this thread, I want to go through the various forms of belts found in Star Army Art.

In general, the male belt has been fairly consistent. It has, over the years, almost always remained the correct gray color (even when the boots and gloves were white, despite regulations saying they should match the belt) with a gold belt buckle. The belt goes straight across the waist:

It's the female belt where everything gets confusing, because it had an extra strap on the hip (to help with the female curves, I guess) and no one could figure out if the strap went up or down. Take a look. Here's some early art by me:

Irim's belt is straight across, as is this:

But, wait, on this art from the official uniform page, we have a slanted belt with the hip strap thing going up!

Here's it again, on a modified commission artwork where I added the belt:This was also on the uniform reference page.

The slanted belt on female uniforms becomes a trend due to the reference page, and appears in commissions...

Note the belt buckle is not gold in this one.


This one has the belt buckle colored gold by me:




This continues as Zairyo makes his take on it:

Things continue to get more varied as more artists make their own takes on it.



These next four art from the same artist. Note the various belt colors and silver buckles and the various designs:

Finally here's some from this year, note the same up/down belt issue exists:



Bonus content: Tools!

I think that could be easily justified by saying the loop is actually an additional piece, rather then a built in one. That way it could be purely personal preference in terms of how you wear it, and we could even list a specific manner it has to be worn for formal occasions to simplify that part of things. Personally, I think it's a small enough quirk that it's more of a passing note then anything that really needs clarification.

In this thread, we look at some of the various boots found on Star Army of Yamatai characters over the years. White boots have often shown up despite never being in the regulations (standard issue was always gray until YE 35).

Classic gray on a male (Type 22 Duty uniform)


Classic gray on a female bodysuit:


White boots (male) from the classic era (Type 22 Duty Uniform) by Zairyo:


Female boots on a dress uniform:


Thigh-high white boots from the old formal white uniform, but also seen used on Katsuko, Misaki, and other command nekos.


Later Zairyo style (YE 30 or later) with detailed soles. Note the dark color.


Male boots, white again. Type 30 uniform.

More variety of boots from the YE 30-YE 34 era:









Hanako's techno-thigh highs (these are done by Lexxy by the original design was in the Type 30A uniform design by Saejin Oh).


Rare sneakers, possibly a varient of the Saejin-oh technoboots


And here's the heels for the current duty uniform, which were introduced in YE 32 with the black coat and the flat hat:

Well, it's a military so there's the desire to have a common standard; although, uniforms of this area, the boot, belt, and glove colors were allowed a variety of colors: blue-gray, gray, dark gray, black, brown, or white. The issue was finally put to rest (hopefully) by adopting the duty uniform type 35 and having a standard look and color to the belts.

On the Type 35 belt, it always goes straight across the wearer and the belt buckle horizontal and the secondary strap on female uniforms (only) coming out of the belt on the bottom (always) just to the side of the belt buckle and with the holster attached to both the belt and the strap.