I work at a refinery here in South Texas and I need to wear steel toe or composite toe work boots. Now in the first picture, that is when I'm at work I have to wear jeans and my work boots. But in the second picture you see I'm wearing a cute little dress with those same work boots. So they can go with a cute outfit or be on the job and do their duty. They are wonderful! Now when I first got these I thought they were going to be like regular work boots where there was going to be a break-in. I thought that they were going to be really uncomfortable and it would take me about a good 6 months to a year before they could be comfortable. Boy was I wrong! From day one that I put them on, they were absolutely comfortable. And better yet they were so cool and somewhat airy. I'm not a worker who goes out into the field too often. I'm administrative. So I don't think that the vent tech would work for somebody who is a field worker in that they're not waterproof because the water would get through the vents. However if you're administrative mostly and you don't go out into the fields too often, especially to do manual labor, thay should work perfectly for you. The only problem that I have with these boots, and it's something that Ariat has zero control over, so there's nothing they can do about it. The arch on my right foot is just slightly higher than the arch on my left. So at the apex of the arch on the top of my foot it's a little tight. But I think that was more where the leather will probably loosen up or you know maybe even conform to my foot a little bit better. But it's not so tight that I can't wear the boots, so I am just going to keep them and enjoy them for as long as I possibly can.