If you don't mind dropping $150 on a casual business shoe, you can't go wrong here.
This is a very good looking shoe, which is quite comfortable, very well constructed and priced to match.I purchased 10 pairs of shoes during Prime Week. 8 out of the 10 were far too narrow in the toe box. This was, by far, the most comfortable and most accurately sized shoe of the bunch. Not quite as stylish as the Johnston & Murphy Men’s Upton Perfed Plain Toe shoe, which was my first choice for style. However, the Johnston & Murphy shoe is made for elves, or at least people with skinny little elf feet.Unlike Johnston & Murphy, who have forgotten real men want comfort over style; whereas Women will break their feet in half if they like the style of the shoe, Rockport, at least in the case of the Rockport Men's Cacey Oxford, seems to have found the perfect balance between form, fit, style and function. Now, the only question remaining is durability. I cannot rate the durability yet, but I will come back to that in 6-months. Until then, I STRONGLY recommend the Rockport Men's Cacey Oxford.By way of contrast, Rockport seems to neglected size and comfort in their Rockport Men's Comp Truflex Slip Resistant Composite Toe Work Shoes. Like the other 8 of the 10 shoes I purchased during Prime week 2025, Rockport seems to have neglected size and fit in the TruFlex Work shoe. I'm a bit shocked by this. Granted the Truflex has a reinforced composite replacement for the ole steel toed work boot; however, the name "TruFlex Work Shoe" really seems to be a misnomer. The reinforced toe should have a little extra room rather than no wiggle room, especially when you consider the shoe is supposed to be flexible, or at least that is how I understood the term "TruFlex." Further, as a work shoe, it should be designed to be comfortable for someone who will be standing and working in the shoe for 10-hours a day. Unless you have skinny little elf feet the reinforced composite toe box in TruFlex workshoe would leave your toes bruised an the toenails falling off by lunch.Having said the, the Cacey Oxford and the Truflex are both very well constructed. The Cacey Oxford is true to size, whereas the Truflex is either one half size too small or not a workshoe designed for Comfort.I've been wearing U.S. size 8.5 shoes for the better part of 40 years, and never had any size issues until this week. So I don't think the size issue is with my feet, especially consider the fact that the Cacey Oxford fits very and is very comfortable to wear. Perhaps shrinkflation has hit shoe world.In sum, if you don't mind shelling out $150 for nice, well built shoe, both the Rockport Cacey Oxford or the TruFlex Work shoe are great choices BUT don't forget to upsize the Truflex! If the Truflex is available in 'wide' sizes, that may work as well, but I have not looked for, or tried the 8.5 wide.