Absolutely Beautiful!
It's true that it doesn't close all the way, but I don't care. On me, it lacks about 6 inches for the fabric to meet, but the tie is plenty long enough, and it's really designed to have a gap so it doesn't bother me. It still looks great. I wear mostly 12's, a few 14's if that helps. I DO wish it was a smaller gap, but it's just so much prettier and better made than I was expecting.