If a - is "Echtlederband", also Aldi bag is a leather bag. It is pure and simple imitation leather and hence the product name is misleading or simply an illusion. The band itself looks with bright stitching on a black background is not bad, and it must be said that the buckles made a seemingly very cheap metal. It would not surprise me if that would after a certain time when the surface coating is gone, begin to rust. Smell does the tape to nothing, neither for leather (goes also bad) nor by plasticizers or the like. This is perhaps pleased all those who do not mind to wear a faux leather belt. The two stars are there for decent processing and optics. However, 13,99 far too expensive plan for a strip of plastic with two buckles. I will not wear that thing, anyway. Either leather or nothing!