Customer Reviews John Varvatos Hipster Chukka

These shoes have nice, supple, thin leather -- unlike the thick and rigid leather of the Florsheim Vance -- and an equally thin and flexible sole. They feel very lightweight. There's something really weird about these shoes. I wore these inside for a week but couldn't get used to them. It might be the odd sole curvature, which is rounded across the width of the shoe. I couldn't tell if that was making my foot curl as if someone was pushing up from both sides of my feet... Or perhaps that was my imagination. It might have been the tight toe box, which pinched whenever my foot flexed. Or it might have been the odd sole texture, which is rubber with little fragments of slippery string peeking through. This makes walking on, say, hardwood floors, an odd halfway sensation between rubber and leather traction. In either case, I couldn't deny that my feet got sore and tired within half an hour. Comfort benchmark (for shoes that I happily wear all day): Kenneth Cole Reaction Punch Line