Amazon Essentials Men’s Stretch Woven Braid Belt

Good belt. Very comfortable. Noticed a big difference between this belt and a regular leather belt as far as comfort when sitting for a long time. This belt stretches slightly when I sit in the car or at home, which is nice.

This belt is more stretchy than I expected. I wear a 34 inch and to get the belt snug (meaning not too tight, but tight enough it holds up my pants when walking), I needed to cinch it up until about 8″ slack extends beyond the buckle. Next time, I would get a 30 inch and let it stretch to my normal 34″, leaving 4″ slack.

Perfect belt

This belt works great for shorts or casual pants. It has a good amount of stretch but remains tight so order your usual size.

I one thing I don’t like is the small leather leader, it’s difficult to get through the belt loops. A 3-4 inch leader would make it much quicker to thread through the loops.

If I could I’d buy one in every colour
Fits my fluctuating waistline perfectly

Perusing woven belts on Amazon, I’ve found it difficult to make a decision because even when there are mostly outstanding reviews there are also the inevitable outlier horror stories. Finally I took a chance on this Amazon Essentials product, and I’m glad I did. The stitching of the leatheresque pieces to the fabric seemed secure, the tapered end was easy to insert into my belt loops, and equally easy to remove (and I have had other woven belts where that actually WAS a problem because of the protrusion of the tapered piece, so I am somewhat educated on this potential problem).

Another thing on Amazon reviews of this kind of belt in general was apparent poor quality control or perhaps better said stockroom control, in that the same length of belt, ordered in a given length, could arrive in many different lengths. In my case, not much of a problem, as seen in the photograph attached. I have about a 33″ waist. I ordered three belts: a green 32″, a tan 32″, and a dark brown 34″. I ordered the 34″ primarily because the 32″ brown was unavailable; but since the product reviews of this kind of belt can’t decide whether one should order slightly longer, slightly shorter, or “to size”, I thought the 34 might end up being better for me anyway. In the event, as you can see in the picture, they all are essentially the same length, and they all fit me fine since you do need to stretch the belt a little bit to get it snug. Ordering anything shorter would have been a problem, but ordering the right size (34″) or even two inches longer would also have been fine. (Fortunately the engineering tolerances in stretchy belts are a good deal less stringent than for automotive parts!) Basically, I didn’t feel that these belts need to be stretched excessively in order to hold up my pants!

Finally, a minor point. On the Amazon web site, the brown and green are listed as being made in Cambodia, while the tan is listed as made in China. However, all three belts I received, including the tan, are labeled as Cambodian products.

In rating these belts, I skipped the “durability” criterion, since I’ve only owned them for 30 minutes! If they fall apart in a short time (really not expected!) I’ll add to the review.

Works really well, my wife bought pretty much the same product for 65$ couple weeks prior as a gift. It’s offering definitely a good value for the price.