text: Shoes are enroute to Goodwill.  They look nice coming out of the box but are of poor quality.  The strip of material which joins the upper to the sole is, I believe, called a &#34;welt&#34;.  If you look at the profile view of the inside of the shoe you can see it clearly, it's a quarter-inch by quarter-inch strip, stitched on.<br /><br />On one of my shoes, approximately three to four inches of this thing simply detached itself such that it was hanging off of the shoe while I was at work.  Not the look I'm going for.  I took a knife to it and cut off detached piece so I wouldn't look like a homeless guy for the rest of the day.