My first two purchases of Hotter ‘Gortex’ shoe was made four years ago and they were very good. When the opportunity arose to buy some more of the same shoe in a sale I purchased two more pair of shoes and put them aside to use when the others had worn out. The first pair I took out to use, the soles split within weeks and the shoes had hardly been worn, some of the eyelets also came off; they let water in soon after I started wearing them so I then used them to walk over the pebble beach when down the south coast. The second pair I started using this year have also developed cracks in the soles of the shoe and are also rendered useless. I can’t send them back as I have had them in my wardrobe for a year before using them! While I sung the praises of hotter shoes at first, the bottom line now is I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole! They are a very expensive mistake and not worth a glance.