These are great shoes, they're very comfortable. The leather is made to last any weather. I walk every day to work (urban) and I bought these shoes so that I could wear them all day and still look nice after years, that was my hope. The sole, however, starts thinning very soon and once it gets the wooden part is all downhill. After few months, I took them to repair the sole to a redwing store. They were very nice, they gave me a discount, and yet, a couple of months after, the sole started doing the same.