These are garbage right out of the box. The material, like other people mentioned, is stiff and rough and essentially scrapes up your skin as you walk. They don't fit well either, the right shoe is uncomfortably tight, which is remarkable since my left foot is a size wider than my right.

Teva, you charge a premium for your shoes and I believe still use Vietnamese communist slave labor for manufacturing, so you must have a large profit margin. Stop with the shoddy workmanship and cheap uncomfortable materials that hurt the user and don't last.

A little background history; I bought my first Dozers in 2008 and they're among the best shoes I've ever owned and I wore them for over three years, probably 8 months a year until the plastic in the heel poked through. Great shoes really. I bought another pair, a later version apparently, that weren't as good and started falling apart after a year. Still comfortable though. I bought a pair of Riva's to replace my second Dozers, which lasted only a few months before being mutilated in the washing machine and these are the shoes I bought to replace the Riva's.