I own several pair of Frye boots and I love all of them.  Most of mine are made in Mexico and one is made in China.  They're all excellent.  This is my first pair of USA Made Frye boots and they do not disappoint at all! Fantastic quality and they look (and smell) great. The leather on these is very soft for this style of boot, but it's also thick so I have no doubt that these will last for many years.  I put them on as soon as they arrived and wore them for about 5 hours with no discomfort at all. Boots in this harness/biker style can sometimes take weeks or months to fully break in.  I feel like this might only take a handful of times for them to be perfect and I could, honestly, wear them all day right now with no concerns. I took a little bit of a chance on the sizing this time because of the price difference and it worked out great.  I normally wear a men's 12D in sneakers, boots, shoes, everything. Frye's typically run large, so I have some 12D Frye boots that I wear with insoles to take up the room and two pairs of 11D Frye's that fit perfectly without insoles. For these boots, size 11-1/2 EW (same as EE) were about 1/3 the price of other sizes. Since snoot toe boots are narrow anyway, I decided to give it a shot and order some Ariat ATS insoles to take up the space if needed.  It worked like a champ. I could probably wear them without the insoles, but I imagine they'd get too lose once the leather finishes breaking in.  With the ATS insoles, they feel GREAT!  They're perfectly snug across the top of the foot and the ATS insole stabilizes my heel just right. I can already tell that these are going to be my new favorite boots.  I ordered mine in black and I'm considering grabbing the pebbled chestnut because they're also super cheap in the wide sizes.

Fry just happens to be that brand that feels like it was custom made for my feet and these are no exception.