I bought this belt because I've had pretty good experiences with these belts in the past as I have a physical job that requires me to bend and bend more effort when the belts keep hitting me in the stomach when I lean over. However, this last belt I bought must be defective because the small piece of metal keeps slipping through the leather belt and through the large metal ring so over time it goes to the other side and then the belt and my pants come loose almost falls off me . It happened three times yesterday, it's not a very good belt. I will probably look for another company for the type of belts they make or I may have to go back to traditional belts.