I got these shoes in black from another website and was overall happy with the styling.  Although the material does shout "synthetic", it looks good, especially from a few feet away.  I found the fit to be slightly larger than normal, which I had heard from other reviews on the site I shopped at.  I normally wear between an 8.5 and a 9, and the 8s fit me perfectly.  I was very happy with the comfort level; my feet get tired very easily but these did not give me any problems.

The one MAJOR complaint I have is that they stink to high heaven.  I was surprised at how strong the unpleasant chemical-y smell was when I took the shoes out of the box, but assumed it would dissipate.  It did not.  My boyfriend had to ask me to put my shoes outside or somewhere that he wouldn't have to smell them.  Even from one or two rooms away, you could smell them.  If I wore them and then took them off and left them outside, the smell would linger on my socks to the extent that my boyfriend would ask, "oh, did you wear those boots today?"  He describes the odor as somewhere between melting plastic and a garbage fire.  It's that strong.  In order to try to "air them out", I left them out on the porch for the entire spring and summer (roughly April through August).  They STILL stink.  The odor has gotten much less powerful, with a stink radius of about 3 feet instead of the entire house, but the fact that they still smell after being outside for 5 months (and Febreze'd, perfumed, dryer sheet'd, etc.) tells me that there was a larger manufacturing issue that cannot be corrected on my end.

I bought these on "final sale" from another website so I could not return them, but hopefully if you want to give it a shot and buy through Amazon, you will be able to send them back if your experience is like mine.  Considering there are so many positive reviews on here, I assume that only some of the shoes end up stinking so badly, so maybe you'll get lucky!  I would recommend going down a half size (or maybe even a full size, if you plan to wear them with tights/stockings rather than socks), but YMMV.