i had a pair of these reissue epoch pros last year
and while they looked sick and skated pretty dece, they had THE worst blowout of any shoe ive skated, right on the toe end of the laces where the vamp and the eyelets meet. there was only a single row of stitches holding the two panels together and when those went, the whole thing kinda opened up like a mouth. there was no way to undo it, superglue and shoegoo wouldnt retroactively hold the shit together so i ended up just putting them on the street.