text: These look much better in the product photos. Reviews that said to size down only wasted my time. Order your normal dress shoe size. I wear a UK8.5/F (i.e. US9/D), which is a very regular fit, not skinny, not wide and a regular arch, not high, not low. These shoes fit like a UK D or C. These shoes are extremely narrow and made for people with flat-feet - painful at the instep of normal arches. I've never had this issue with standard, properly made shoes from Northampton. Here, the leather is very cheap and felt like I could easily tear it with my hands. It's not top grain leather, but corrected grain crap, and, of course, it doesn't feel like real leather, especially proper shoe leather. It feels like a bonded leather couch that college students would buy on craigslist. The pair I received had cracks on the toe-cap already. I have boots that have been worn for years that don't have this kind of cracking and never will.<br /><br />The boot altogether is much too light and feels insubstantial, even as a dress shoe/boot. I have English loafers that are much more substantial than these cheap Italian &#34;boots.&#34; They should have had eyelets all the way up instead of the stupid loops; they just get in the way, ironically make lacing less easy and they look sloppy to boot (see what I did there?). They look awkward with anything but very slim khakis. If you wear them with jeans, you'll look like a metro douche. These cost more than the Tricker's wingtip boots I've had for years that only get better with time. When I received these To Boot New York boots, I knew they would fall apart on their own, so I returned them. I decided to get a pair of black wingtip boots made in Northampton instead of these, that I wear with jeans, corduroy and khakis. They look much better and the quality is incomparably superior. I wear proper dress shoes when I need to; I wasn't looking for something that I could try to wear with suits or jeans, not that these are it, at least for my style. These are a poor approximation of suitable footwear for those two cases, at best.<br /><br />The To Boot New York boots aren't suitable for me in any way; not as a boot and not as a dress shoe. These are suitable for the type of metro euro douche that will wear them with Diesel acid wash jeans, shirts with glittery logos and crap are over and some creepy &#34;luxury&#34; sunglasses that have gradient lenses and gold-colored plastic logos at the temple. If you've touched, smelled or worn a shoe from Northampton, you will instantly know the difference between them and these TBNY shoes. These are simply trash in comparison.a poor approximation of suitable footwear for those two cases, at best.   The To Boot New York boots aren't suitable for me in any way; not as a boot and not as a dress shoe. These are suitable for the type of metro euro douche that will wear them with Diesel acid wash jeans, shirts with glittery logos and crap are over and some creepy &#34;luxury&#34; sunglasses that have gradient lenses and gold-colored plastic logos at the temple. If you've touched, smelled or worn a shoe from Northampton, you will instantly know the difference between them and these TBNY shoes. These are simply trash in comparison.