Reply #26: Please post at some point how they held up for you. Indian and Chinese

[KoKo]

leather is much thinner than the leather used in former American Made Shoes or those made in Brazil and Spain. Although Spanish leather is thin...it is tanned in a way that holds up very well.

The Indian and Chinese leather is spliced and if you look carefully is not evenly tanned like the old American shoes were. Surface often has flaws and there is an "odor" but perhaps you aren't sensitive to what real leather "American Style" was years ago... and may be confusing the Indian odor with real leather...American style. :shrug:

Shocking that Cole Haan had to go to India just to cut some $$'s off their price, though>