Nice leather, nice colour, BUT poor design of 'tongue'. These are quite 'large' boots due to toe design and the inability to tighten the boot with lacing makes them rather 'clompy'. The tongue has not been correctly designed to fold if laces tightened. So presume not meant yo be. So they are a bit like wearing wellies. Id have preferred a taller boot too but that just me. I wear an EU37 and tho these claim to be that they are a tad bigger. So buy a size down.