"These shoes look great out of the box, but I wore them around my apartment for about 30 minutes and a crack formed through the black on the outside of one shoe. I figured I could live with that and maybe polish over it. After one wearing to the symphony, by the end of the night my feet were tortured and the crack turned into a quarter-sized foggy/white area where it looked like the black was about to fall off the side of the shoe. Please avoid this shoe. Too bad since the style and look of these is pretty sharp, but I regret buying these and hope I can return them this weekend."