The suit is made to represent Empire Strikes Back Darth Vader, it's elastic with foam parts detailing the chest, shoulders, crotch and shins. The belt is itself a separate piece with painted rubber parts like the light boxes, the same material is on the chestelly buttons box. As for the bad parts, this costume does not offer the gloves or light saber, the head mask is just that, a mask, not an actual helmet and there seems to be some quality control issues as you can see my belly box is sort of tilted. Overall, if you're looking for the best qualityprice Darth Vader costume, this is it, you'll fell quite complete in it and i strongly recommend you get the actual helmet, i have the 2004 toy's r'us version.