Have these shoes bought in early 2013 and rarely worn. Decisive for the purchase was that the leather uppers and as so often is not synthetic. I also belong to the people who clean their shoes as needed with leather soap, then rub Dubbin. Good shoes keep me so many years. These Sketchers are but after 18 months, despite the rather sporadic use ausgelatscht and unsightly - the latter because the seams and textile applications abfasern and the leather until the lace is strong wrinkles on his toes throughout the area. I like the fact only attract if it is to be comfortable and not so it matters how I look with it. Will I buy me not again, even if the price of leather shoes is very convenient.