text: Point:<br />---Comfortable fit, seem well-made (duh, they're Merrells)<br />---Breathe marginally better than shoes with full-leather-uppers<br />Counterpoint:<br />---&#34;Mesh&#34; descriptions imply the mesh is solid straight through to the inside of the shoe, but it is not. This might have been okay, but<br />---Inner lining of shoe doesn't breathe well<br />Conclusion:<br />---Great shoes for Summer in upper Catskills, avoid if you live south of Pennsylvania, and if you live south of Virginia, there's a good chance nothing much will help you stay cool outside anyway...<br />-------<br />If you live anywhere with temperatures regularly above 85 Fahrenheit, don't buy these. The &#34;mesh&#34; uppers on these are mostly aesthetic, and rest atop a solid layer of cloth. I understand the description lists a cloth lining. However, if the lining is primarily an insulator and does not, in fact, &#34;breathe&#34; well (as advertised) the mesh is of little to no value.<br /><br />I thought I might be imagining it, because surely the mesh topper wouldn't be inhibited by a single layer of cloth as long as it breathes well, right?<br /><br />So I ran a little experiment comparing the Merrells to my (dark-grey) running shoes in terms of how well they stay cool. To ensure reasonable control, I stood outside in both pairs of shoes in direct sunlight for 3 minutes before getting into my (already-cool) car to test. Placing my feet in the Merrels and then under the AC unit in my car, it took 3 minutes before I could even *begin* to feel any of the coolness underneath. I did the same experiment with my running shoes and started feeling the coolness on my toes within 30s.