These shoes are truly beautiful and completely took my five and a half year old's breath away on Christmas morning.  That said, the sequins immediately began to fall of.  Anytime the shoes brush against anything, including each other, the sequin threading breaks and the sequins fall off.  I will go at them with the hot glue gun and see what I can do but the shoes are overall quite fragile.  The heel, general structure of the shoe looks well made but I can't imagine these will last long.  Considering the money I spent on them, I'm a little disappointed but my daughter is still head over heels for them.