text: I hope this is a good pair - they're made in Indonesia, not China.  The soles seem to be made of a new material, and the leather uppers have a different appearance than what I'm used to.  I have owned at least six pair of Sperry &#34;Original&#34; Topsiders over the decades.  The original US-Made quality was great - the soles of a 30+ year old pair are still intact.  My several Chinese &#34;originals&#34;  have varied tremendously in quality.  The soles of my most recent Chinese pair are crumbling into tiny pellets of hard plastic that scatter all over the floor - I've worn them as indoor slippers exclusively for two years as they are too fragile to wear outdoors.  I keep two other pair as beach shoes, and they have not disintegrated as badly despite sand, salt, and age.  I spoke to a company rep a few years ago to complain about the stitching coming apart, and he was the one who told me they'd been making shoes in China for at least 10 years.  &#34;Originally&#34; Sperry was an American company.  They've disintegrated from being a quality shoemaker crafting one good shoe into an international joke manufacturing dozens (hundreds?) of low quality &#34;styles&#34;.  ORIGINAL?  My foot!