Non-leather dress shoes are hard to find, and these were at least as comfortable as anything else I've had -- which still left me eager to remove them at the end of a day and in pain in well under a week of daily wear. Further, they didn't last well. I usually work from a home office, leaving only about four weeks a year when my customers or co-workers would even know whether I got dressed. That means that my dress shoes do light duty, and even so I got less than three years out of these (Maybe four or five professional conferences, a couple client engagements, and a funeral) before the surface started to peel off in a truly unsightly manner. For the price, I expect better.