I bought these for our daughter on christmas in 2010... it is now the end of 2012.. She still wears these shoes almost everyday. She doesn't wear them for sports or long walks or anything, just going to school and then switches shoes for gym class... but my DC's are already starting to come unstitched and I have only had them for 6 months.. My daughter is a lot more active than I am and these Osiris shoes are still holding together well.. Defnitiely a quality brand compared to the sketchers and other junk we have bought in the past