I've had these shoes for under 4 months and wear them 4 days a week to work in a corporate environment. I'm not hard on my shoes at all, in fact have has some shoes over 10 years and they still look great. These, however, are not great shoes: the sole is already wearing down in spots, the heel is wearing down, the coating on the decorative button peeled off, the leather is discoloring (they look like I wore them through boot camp), and the innersole has already lost what little padding it came with. At first I thought they were comfortable. Then I started having extreme foot pain all across the bottom of my foot and Achilles heel. I didn't think it could be because of my new shoes until summer sandal season arrived and I didn't wear them for a week. When I wore these shoes again, pain! And it wasn't just a little discomfort, I was having trouble moving my feet in the mornings and is was painful to walk during the day. I had scheduled to see a doctor until I figured out it was the shoes! I paid a lot for these shoes and got very little. And frankly, I'm angry about it.