>>The "concealed" aspect has to do with cordinating your clothes ensemble.

Okay, fair enough. Mind you, I'm a software engineer type; I think wearing dress shoes with blue jeans and a Dilbert T-shirt is colour-coordinated enough for everyday wear <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

>>Unless you walk around in kaki or camofluge all day,

The place where I bought my paracord advertises that they have it in white, black, and OD. They didn't have any black or OD when I went there, but I did get 50' of it in white. I'd prefer to get it in black because IMO a black belt goes with pretty much every suit I own. <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

>>I do not think of emergency use as being able to rip the paracord off of your body and throw a saving lifeline to someone.

Actually, that was precisely the inventor's motivation for developing the Slatts belt.

>>...unless you are buying confirmed military surplus, I wouldn't trust commercial grade paracord to meet mil. specs.

LOL Of course not, I presume that's why they call it "mil spec". <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> And it's also why reputable sources for mil spec paracord are discussed at length in this forum.

>>... I would rather have a rayon fishing line in my kit or a bobbin of dental floss than to sit down and try to pull XX number of feet of core line out of the paracord.

True; I suspect most of us would - if only to save us having to destroy our beloved paracord <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But part of the game is redundancy, and if you can achieve that with no increase in weight, why not?