The shoes are visually so great or even better than they look here. The material is flexible and the son thick enough sometimes to run over a few small stones. We still wanted to first send back because the shoes (bought size 26/27) are approximately 1.5 cm longer and some 1cm wider than normal shoes of this size. We then keep them finally because the port costs for return should be so high that the action would not have been worthwhile. The shoes remain just now until next summer on the shelf.