These belts (the brown and the black variety) have served me well the month or two that I've owned them.  I have to pass through a metal detector every day for work and my regular belts kept setting it off - especially when they changed guards and some wise guy cranked up the sensitivity so the newbies would get more 'wand experience'.  You can empty out every piece of metal on your person and your belt buckle, even relatively small ones, will still set off a hypersensitive metal detector. These belts perform as I'd hoped they would.

They look kind of plain.

I have not used the hidden pouch (money belt) feature.