Mens World Tour Classic Walking Shoe

Great quality, comfortable, and casual due to pebble finish but, if traveling, ok with suit if you only want to bring one pair of shoes.

Love these shoes because they are of high quality and come in narrow which is hard to find. The back of the shoe does not have anything to catch pants on which is another plus! These are the two details we were looking for so they are perfect!

I purchased these shoes for my boyfriend’s birthday. He has other colors of this same brand and style of shoe. He loves the way the sole cushions his feet while offering a lightweight and comfortable feel in wearing them for long periods of time. An older pair quickly became his favorite “garden shoe.” This color looks slimming on his foot due to the variation of a dark color on the top and an off white on the sides of the shoe. Although not waterproof, the material feels soft like suede, but wears like leather. These shoes are a great quality and value for your money!

The good part about these shows is that they do provide great support, they fit really well, and they're quite comfortable. I also appreciate that they tend to last a long time. The soles generally provide good traction and I haven't experienced any problems with them in the various environments where I walk. Given that I walk a lot on uneven ground, I really need a shoe with top quality support and these shoes provide it.However, the con side of these shoes are the amazingly high price and the fact that the inside of the shoe tends to wear out before the outside of the shoe. The upper shoe will usually continue to look acceptable (especially if you polish them) and the sole will still have good wear left on it when the innards just give out and force you to buy a new pair. I'm not sure there is an answer to this problem. I've had other shoes where the soles gave out first and that actually ends up being worse because your feet constantly get wet. Still, it would be nice if the shoe wore just a bit better considering the high price. The shoe laces always give out after about six or seven months, but a new pair of shoe laces don't cost much.I've been buying these shoes for years now. Out of the nine or ten pairs that I've owned, they tend to wear consistently for the most part. I did have one pair that must have been factory rejects because the finish was quite poor. I did return them to the store I bought them at (I wasn't buying them on Amazon at the time) and got a trade without problem. In general, I can expect two or possibly three years of moderately hard use out of my shoes. However, I do wear them until they're literally falling apart. I imagine most people would wear them for a year or so before getting a new pair. Adding a good pair of insoles once the shoe begins to show its age does add to its life expectancy.

I am a confirmed wearer of Rockport Shoes. The shoe wear is wonderful.

2nd UPDATE: I went home (upstate NY) for the holidays and in my spare time went to a local, well-regarded shoe shop that I know in the past carried this model Rockport. After getting sized by a retail associate, they brought me a pair of 12 W of this model and it fit just like it used to. I checked the label under the tongue and was unsurprised to find that the country of manufacture was Vietnam. I bought them immediately, and would have bought two more pairs if they had any left. The price was also slightly cheaper, although after the headache of guessing sizes and returning poorly fitting shoes, I'd have gladly paid more.So, it seems that Rockport has either moved manufacture of the shoes from Vietnam to India, or that they have manufacturers in several countries at once fulfilling orders. Regardless of where they are made, the current lot coming out of India seems to be suffering greatly in sizing, quality and consistency. I'm going to submit this entire saga to Rockport in hopes that something might change in the future, but I'm not holding my breath. In the short term, I plan to scrounge through any area brick and mortar stores carrying this model in hopes they have some Vietnam-built in my size in back storage.UPDATE: I returned the last pair and ordered size 12, 3E (which I wasn't even aware was a size, but there were no 4E available in size 12). Tried them on, still very tight. When I compared them sole to sole with my 10 month old pair of size 12, 2E of same model... the older shoes are wider! Not sure where to go from here, but I'm probably never going to buy Rockports online again if there's going to be a complete lack of consistency on the part of the manufacturer.ORIGINAL: I've resigned myself to being happy with any pair of daily wear shoes that lasts longer than six months before they wear out. I'm a big guy so if the soles don't run smooth, then the inside back of the heel usually starts to fray/come apart. These shoes are better than most in that regard.However, the quality of these products has declined over the years. The last two pairs I've owned have been vastly improved by third-party insoles. Also, the shoelaces tend to break/fray easily, and Rockport-brand replacements in the right color are tough to come by.This time around, I ordered the same size (12, 2E) of this pair of shoes I ordered 10 months ago. The shoes' fit is much tighter, in particular around the big toe MTP. I don't suffer from bunions or bursitis, but I get the feeling these shoes might aggravate those conditions if you have them (or perhaps induce them...?). In addition, the shoelaces are shorter than I remember them being (although they do appear to be the same cheap quality that I mentioned above).I'm not sure where to go from here, since I'm pretty sure I can't return these since I wore them outside for a few days in hopes that there might be a "fitting in" period and they material would relax (but that doesn't seem to be the case.) The only difference I can see between the old pair and this new pair is the place of manufacture. The old pair was made in Vietnam and the new pair in India. While I'd love to buy American-made, I'm simply looking for a quality product that doesn't wear out quickly. And if it does wear out in 6 months, doesn't cost an arm and a leg (e.g. my last few pairs of NB).Next time, I'll try ordering a half-size up or perhaps even 4E width. Then again, I might just have too look for yet another brand that hasn't been suffering from these quality/consistency issues. I think I'll have my work cut out for me.