The shoes are okay.  My husband needed them for a wedding as a groomsman.  The shoes arrived with an odor so strong.  Felt like we were in a tire factory.  RUBBER!!!!!!!!!!!!  We left them outside for several days to air out and the smell still didn't go away significantly.  The 'suede' was hard and felt more like sand paper.  But, the shoes did the job they needed to do.  I wasn't about to spend $500 on fancy shoes he would only wear once.  You get what you pay for, but these did the trick for one day.