I travel a lot and am tired of going through TSA security and accidentally these machines find my belt and waste my time removing it etc so I went for these given the price I gave away "TSA-friendly" belt decided. Chance. So far so good, they seem well made, beautiful and the perfect size. Now it comes down to the durability of the plastic buckles, if they last a decent time I'll change my rating to 5 runs, if not I'll downgrade to what I think is fair.