These shoes have some nice stitching nad other detail that is hard to see in the pictures.  This gives the shoe some subtle class and keeps it from being a boring brown shoe.  Just received last night and they need a little breaking in but so far they are comfy and look great with jeans.  I ordered a 9.5 which is usually just a little big for me and they came in just as I was expecting so I would say they run true to size.