Ann you might be interested in reading Women`s work the First 20000 years,
As to having no proof of belts, we can only relate to drawings or figurines, Or verbal descriptions [poetry stories ] of what people wore. We in the Jewish Bible are very lucky to have some descriptons of clothes. we have found various clothing items and/or cloth in some diggings. But i agree with you that REASON would have helped people to use what they had. Most first clothes weren`t that wide, nore very strechy, as people used skins. before they had woven cloth . Urumuchi finds are certainly a help to uinderstand a bit how people dressed... In Genesis 3, 7 , the text says that sewed fig leaves and made a belt of leaves , in Sanuel1, 18 , 4 and in Proverbs 31, 24 , Which means that at the time it was written, Belts were known . mirjam
