I bought this belt because I was so very, very tired of the crappy ones you buy at Hot Topic or Spencers or Pac Sun or ANY store for that matter, all falling apart and looking ancient by the time you had 'em for maybe a year (I wear a studded belt EVERY DAY so I'm a "heavy user" for these products). Spend $20 on a belt and 2 months later the backing on the belt is already falling apart, ugh, I was so sick of it. So I decided to fork out a bit more moola for a REAL leather belt this time. Oh man, it was so worth it.

I've been wearing it for 9 months now (I WAS wearing it daily for the first 3 months, and now it's only periodically), and there is absolutely zero sign of wear and tear on it. None. It seriously looks like it just came in the mail. I'm VERY happy I bought this.

Only thing that mildly sucks about the belt, hence 4 stars instead of 5, is indeed, it is quite a wide belt. It fits most of my pants' belt loops, but there's a couple pairs of pants/shorts that just can't tolerate the width of the belt, it just doesn't work. Slight bummer, but nothing I'm agonizing over. And yes, the description of the belt accurately describes the belts measurements, I guess I just didn't bother to compare sizes to my other belt (which completely disintegrated within a year's time...stupid Pac Sun piece of junk belt...).

Btw, sometimes this info helps: I'm a female with a 32" waist (at least that's what size of men's pants I fit into), and I bought the 36" belt. I wear it on the first hole for the belt buckle (aka: tightest it can go), and I like it that way so I can get the remainder of the belt through the first belt loop a second time so it doesn't constantly catch on tables/counter tops/chairs/etc (I dearly hope that all made sense...).

I would recommend this product to anyone who has wide belt loops on their pants, and are "heavy studded belt users" like myself :P