Usually their quality are pretty good, I love their sandals and wedges. If you find the soles slippery, you have have rubber soles added at the cobblers.
Quality of Stuart Weitzman shoes?
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I've never had a quality issue with SW shoes and I've been buying them for nearly a decade. I love SW suede boots...my chic boots lasted nearly 5 years in black suede with proper care, and I just purchased thighland over the knee boots in dark brown suede and they are gorgeous! I have SW patent pumps and Nudist sandal in metallic gold. I love them all and find them to be comfortable, versatile, beautiful and a great buy overall. I love other brands such as Aquazzura, Valentino, YSL, even J Crew, but SW will always be one of my go- to brand's.
Weiztman is a nice brand. I've never been disappointed. Mind you though I'm mostly invested in his heels and boots. I've not had much experience with his flats. If you've got a slightly narrow heel his medium/B works quite well. I find his heels quite comfortable and his styles do offer longevity as they are not overly faddish.
Same. I ordered this shoe from Net a Porter in Gold last Summer and the holes in the strap were unevenly spaced/ crooked and the sole had slight wrinkling as well. When I inquired for my RA number to return them, they told me to keep the shoes and they refunded my card! They are wearable, but I still have not worn them. This was my Only issue with SW shoes and I've been buying them for nearly 14 years. The classic styles are well done and well made.
There are only so many shoe factories, the designers put in their orders and the factories make them. I noticed a similar flaw with Todd and was appalled. I know at least one style of Loubs had that flaw as well. Anyway research how shoes are manufactured and how many go to the same few factories. Search on Tamara Mellon and her lawsuit.
Respectfully, that isn't true. First of all there are many many Spanish shoe factories and whereas some of them do produce for multiple lines, the huge production labels like Stuart Weitzman take up the entire production of the factories that they work in. Weitzman has over a half century being known for quality and fit but that doesn't mean that a shoe can't occasionally slip through quality control showing less than excellent work. I agree that the posted sandal is not Weitzman's finest. Because the distribution is so huge, somewhere around a dozen factories are used and like everything else, some do a better job than others but it's not necessarily because the factory is working for multiple designers.
I'm not sure why my statement isn't true. I didn't say that Weitzman isn't a quality shoe, I love the line and have enough of them. I was responding to the cause of the flaw that was posted, that I'd seen it elsewhere as well. so this is not specifically a SW issue but rather a factory issue. That is why I framed the statement with 'There are only so many shoe factories'. I'm aware that Spain has many shoe factories, however only so many are going to take on a SW production. Regarding 'Anyway research how shoes are manufactured and how many go to the same few factories', this was not an absolute statement, simply a suggestion as to why this may occur and a point of research. 
None of my Weitzmans that that flaw and I doubt the Heist i'm expecting any day now will have it either.
Just saying that any production line can make a Friday or Monday shoe and that it happens in the finest factories including those that use their entire production for one label.
None of my Weitzmans that that flaw and I doubt the Heist i'm expecting any day now will have it either.