These shoes are very comfortable, and are nice in that they can dress up or down. My one disappointment is that the laminate that creates the cork sole look got wet (as sometimes happens with shoes one wears outdoors) and the laminate sort of bubbled and is pulling away from the base of the shoe itself. I am going to try to re-wet it and flatten it back down, but for the cost of these shoes, I don't think they will last as long as I had hoped.