Contrary to the silly name Joanan chose to fight the vigilantes and feedback from those who feel compelled to misread the second amendment to buy a belt, I'm glad I now have two belts that do nothing but keep my pants on - while forming a well-organized militia. The camping cargo pants I've bought from Bass-Pro over the years have always had looser straps and now finally no straps. Those belts (not this one) had buckles, which is good, but their belt-gripping feature can't keep their skinny belts from slipping. You can't tell it clearly from the picture, description or any other review but each comes with a plastic buckle that clips onto one end of the strap and opens to accept the other end of the strap and combined with the deep eyelets on thick strap, snaps securely into place, strap stays in place when tightened. It's not the plastic version of those brass buckles that Dad had on a slider-pin fabric belt. They also don't have a buckle like the Bass Pro straps, so the fit has to be adjusted each time the buckle closes. I'm a little worried that this clamping mechanism will start slipping before I outgrow the belt, but so far it's solid. The black patch above the buckle pictured is an elastic band that keeps the loose end of the belt from dangling. The length supplied was too long for me, so I trimmed it down to a 34" waist with heavy-duty scissors, carefully duplicating the nice pointy tip, then risking serious burns by placing it on the hot electric coil of the CalRod oven placed and poured over with water. it's in the water. These belts are only 1.18 inches wide, not the 1.25 inches advertised, but when I carefully browsed the paramilitary belts available to select narrower ones to be sure my cargo pants would fit them, I wasn't disappointed.