It looked really sturdy initially, but it started tearing after a couple of weeks. Although the material seems fine, the manufacturers were REALLY stingy when it came to stitching. The stitches are really light and spaced far apart. The only reason I'll keep it is because my mother used to be a professional seamstress and can fix this really easily. I would have preferred that the strings were a little wider (it starts to dig into your shoulders, painfully, after a while).