the first thing to say about this is yes it works it holds your pants like a regular belt well made and quite strong but the problem, The one I see is that if you make it tight enough to hold the pants (I've lost some weight so I need to tighten the belt otherwise my pants fall a lot) it connects to the 2 front belt loops, so one side is a hook then go around the back and hook in the other sides of the front belt loop now when you see the belt loops are VERY tight I mean they fold back A LOT so I don't think so they will last for more than a few months with so much stress that means your front belt loops will break requiring you to buy new pants or move your belt backwards which makes it weird. While it's a good idea, I don't see it working long without breaking the loops. Maybe someone who hasn't lost weight or is wearing tighter pants, maybe it's not a big deal, I'm not sure but that's what I found out.