"Let me put it mildly - my feet are bad. They always hurt and pretty much the only time I don't notice the constant ache in my feet is when I'm wearing big white sneakers, or my converse. That is until I found these. They are amazing! This bodes well for me considering I manage a clothing boutique and need to look stylish and put together while standing on my feet for 8+ hours everyday.
I have actually ordered these shoes for three separate customers of mine and passed along the DSW site to a few others. I had daily compliments on these shoes in both the black and the brown.
They fit true to size. Some reviews said they fit large so my first pair I went down half a size. They fit fine but my second pair I bought my normal size 7 and there was just the tiniest more amount of room. I'll stick with my size 7.
The leather is nice and soft, quite pliable actually. The zipper up the back is quite hardy and well made. The laces are great because towards the end of the day when my feet were swollen I'd just loosen them a bit. My only complaint would be the insole; it had a weird metallic coating so if your feet perspired bits of silver (or gold in the brown colour) would flake off onto my foot. But seriously this was such a non-issue.
Just bought two more pairs now they're on sale for next year! Totally my go-to summer shoe."