Customer Reviews Florsheim Riva

I definitely do not recommend! These shoes do not wear well - and they caused blisters. They were supposed to replace them and I have yet to received them yet. Stay away!

I have large feet (15 4E) so finding shoes is sometimes a challenge. When I find shoes that fit and I like, I sometimes buy two pairs. I did that with these Florsheims back in March. Five months later, the rubber sole failed (a piece came off and a large crack formed). I immediately switched to my second pair. The rubber sole on this shoe started disintegrating the very same day. They clearly had a materials problem and maybe it has been resolved, but I am out quite a bit of money and it is probably too late to get them to do anything about it. I see no other mention of this problem, but it definitely bit me.

Lousy Leather - Extremely comfortable shoe. Looks great. However, do not buy the Florsheim. I normally wear Nunn Bush with the same cushioned sole but could not find brown in any of the stores (subsequently discovered Zappos). So I bought a pair of Brown Florsheim Riva at a major national retailer. The leather upper on this shoe peels as if it were thin vinyl, if you brush it against anything. Within two weeks of ownership, I was astonished at two distinct rips in the leather on the right side above the heel. The leather was actually peeled back to reveal the white understructure, so I used some super glued to glue it back down to cover the extremely visible under layer. I did not recall hitting anything with my foot, so it had to be very incidental impact like brushing against a curb or similar situation. After this happened, I recalled buying a similar black Florsheim a couple years earlier and it had done the same thing. Shame on me for making the same mistake twice. I have worn Nunn Bush for up to two years before the soles wear out and have never had a leather rip or abrasion like the Florsheim. Incidentally, the fit on both are pretty identical and I have been wearing this style of show with the padded rubber soles for many many years, due to comfort. Can't stand most other dress shoes because you feel like you are wearing hard concrete for shoes.

IS THIS THE SAME SHOE? Received a pair of these the other day, and unlike most of the reviewers, I found them to be one of the worst shoes I had ever seen. The first shock was when I took them out of the box. Rather than quality leather, they looked like they were made of third rate pleather. Picture shows sole and heel, but it is some kind of hybrid which just adds to the shoe's ugliness. The "heel" portion is lower than it should be, leaving your spine at a very annoying angle. The inside is as bad as the outside, Footbed had no padding; so, it felt like you were walking on thin plywood. The strangest thing was that, while the left shoe was normal, the right shoe had a major defect. It kept wanting to twist your foot and ankle. The more uneven the surface, the more it felt as if you were walking on ball bearings. Super cheap looking, ugly as sin, painful and poorly made, don't buy at any price!