Luxomobile for the feet. Great shoes. I wear them for everything I do, which includes
hiking in the desert canyons of Southeast Utah. They breathe in the hot climate, never stink like all this synthetic stuff does. They fit my "odd-shaped feet" as my wife calls them--wide at the front, high instep and arch. I also find the traction from the soles excellent on rock here in the desert. Plus, when it gets muddy, the slight pattern on the sole doesn't pick up and hold mud until I'm inside. They're tough. Two complaints, though. They're low shoes so sand sometimes gets inside--easy to get out, though. And the laces, compared to the old ones they used to provide with these shoes, are low quality--they actually wear out. I had to take the pair out of the very old Natureveldts I had saved in my closet to replace the worn out laces in my "new" pair. Finally, I ordered a new pair in what is stated to be "dark brown oily leather" on the ZAPPOS website--looking at the photo they provide and seeing that it was the same as the ones I've been wearing for years--a kind of medium brown brushed look--and I got a pair that says on the box "dark brown oily leather" and that's exactly what it is--dark brown. So either ZAPPOS picture is wrong, or their terminology as applied to their picture is wrong. If you don't have to have "the newest thing this year" and you don't particularly need "style", whatever that is, and you need comfortable, airy shoes that'll take you anywhere and last almost forever (forget about the laces, though--get some spares), the Natureveldt is "it".
