so i bought these boots from endless.com, not amazon, but endless is owned by amazon so it didn't really make a difference. the good thing about ordering them through endless was that i got a one day FREE delivery, so they were shipped last night when i ordered them and arrived early afternoon today, which i was completely psyched about. endless also offers free returns, but i am NOT going to return these because they are just awesome.
i ordered the light tan color, unlike all the other reviews i read, because i have a pair of durango cowboy boots that are chocolate brown, so i wanted a different color. they are just a little bit darker than the picture online, but i didn't mind that. the leather is wonderful, which i was a little unsure about, because i had gone into belk to test out and try on a pair of any frye boot to see how they were and there were some pairs that were that more stiff, yet heavy leather which belies good quality. yet there were others that had that cheap, plasticy feeling, and i was a little unsure. the leather on these is really soft though and not very stiff. this is sort of good but also sort of bad because the leather tends to slouch, which i would like on any boot, but because the calf-part of the boot is so pronounced, it looks a little funny when it slouches too much...kind of like there's something inside the boot that's making it stick out like that. this pronounced calf isnt' really a problem for me like some of the other stick girls that wrote reviews, because i am an athletic build, with very solid, defined (if you wanna call them, big) calves and the calf part fits them. but the top of the boot fits a little snugly around my upper calf, just below my knee and i'd rather have a little room there, but it's ok. i just tried on a pair of bootcut jeans with them (since i can't wear skinny, it looks too weird with my thighs) and was able to squash down the shaft of the boot, tuck in the jeans, and then pull the boot back up and it worked fine. if you wear jeans over them, it looks great, but the little pull-up parts on the side can be seen underneath the boot, which i don't really care about, but still. something funny that i found was that the boots still look good squashed down. if you hid the calf part sticking out in the back, it'd look pretty good like that too. anyways, definitely get them, although i feel a little bad about shelling out $358, they'll last a lifetime, probably even longer so i don't feel guilty at all :).