The Mountain Belt by Craft and Lore is built with a specific leather. Old World Harness from the family owned Hermann Oak tannery in St Louis (est 1881). We only offer this leather in two colors, Russet and Dark Brown. This leather is unique in it's tanning process with it being heavily hot-stuffed with tallow. This gives it a beautiful rugged and vintage color, so that no two belt straps are ever the same. Expect a wide variation in colors across the strap. The strap is a quarter inch thick, and built as a work horse, not a show horse. It's meant for hard labor and hard use, and wouldn't do well to hold up anything dressy due to it's heavy duty frame.