We purchased these a year ago, halfway through the 2016-2017 winter.  We bought two pairs of mittens and one pair of the gloves. We were so excited for mittens that didn't constantly fall off. For the most part our children's hands stayed warm and dry. However this week I noticed that on three of the six gloves/mittens we purchased the textured rubber  on the hands and fingers was peeling off and one even had a hole in the seam that connects the thumb to the palm.  We have never exposed the mittens to heat or anything that should have damaged the rubber.  Just used them in the snow, an hour or two at a time, probably an average of two times a week.

We are a large family and had hoped to get several years of winter, and hand me downs, out of these mittens.  If they were more durable they would totally be worth the $20-ish price tag.  But only getting one full year of use out of mittens that cost so much is disappointing and I don't think that we will be buying more in the future.