In the armed forces of Prussia, Tsarist Russia, and other Eastern European nations, it was common for officers to wear extremely tight pressing into their stomachs and gutting them up, wide belts around the waist, on the outside of the uniform, both to support a saber and for aesthetic reasons.
I de væbnede styrker i Preussen, zaristiske Rusland og andre østeuropæiske nationer, var det almindeligt for officerer til at bære ekstremt stramme, brede bælter i taljen, på ydersiden af ​​en uniformen, både for at bære sabel samt af æstetiske grunde.