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Beckett Simonon Fuentes: Trend Piece or Smart Buy?

December 21, 2025December 20, 2025 by 100wears

Price: $239

Why Buy?

The Beckett Simonon Fuentes offers great versatility at a great price.

Why Avoid?

The Beckett Simonon Fuentes might not be as fashion forward as the advertising pictures imply.

Specs

Model	Fuentes
Height	Low
Materials	Leather, Rubber, EVA
Size	12
Weight	552 g / 1 lb 3.74 oz
Construction	Blake
Country of Origin	Columbia

History

As a brand, we’ve covered Beckett Simonon a few times on 100wears. More specifically, we took a look at their version of the GAT as well as their more fashion-forward take on the style. We felt that those were great options, especially for the price.

However, a sneaker is one thing. What happens when the brand tries to take on a three headed dragon: fine leathers, stitched construction, and one of the biggest trends of 2025. You end up with the Beckett Simonon Fuentes – a chunky, lugged penny loafer.

There are a few reviews of these online, but most of them focus on how to style them. If you’re wondering, they all say wide-legged jeans. However, nobody has really dove into what makes – or breaks – these loafers. As someone who has been wearing loafers since the last time they had their moment in the sun, I knew I needed to test these out and find the real answers.

Are these worth buying? Or is this just a passing trend you should leave in 2025? Let’s dive in and find out.

Disclaimer: Beckett Simonon provided these loafers for the purpose of review. This is not a sponsored post, and everything below is true to my own opinion.

Looks

Upper

Out of the box, the upper of the Beckett Simonon Fuentes feels nice. Really nice. The brown leather upper is very structured, giving off a dress shoe feel. It’s aniline, so there are some natural variation within it.

Contrasting with the more formal leather choices are the penny loafer features. First, rather than a more traditional design on the strap, the Colombian brand opted for an oblong shape. Building on that, the toe is a moc toe, rather than a flat sewn design or a decorative stitch.

Inside, the majority of the loafer is lined with a thin, gold leather. Around the heel, a panel is flipped to the suede side in order to provide a bit more grip as you’re walking around. Gold lettering shows the size and model info.

The quality of construction leaves nothing to be desired. There is not a stitch out of place, and all of the cuts of leather are symmetrical.

Mid- and Outsole

Maybe it’s just a function of me ordering a larger size, but the thing that stood out to me most about the lower half of the Beckett Simonon Fuentes is that the chunky outsole doesn’t feel overly chunky.

In pictures and most of the reviews, the Fuentes comes off as a highly fashion-focused option. A competitor to the Doc Marten Adrian. However, in person, the feel much more restrained. Don’t get me wrong, there is still a presence to them, but as someone who is now a bit older, I don’t feel like I’m wearing a Gen Z costume putting these on.

Speaking of that outsole, it’s a standard lug pattern, made up in a matte black foam.

The only style part of the loafer that I would change is the decorative welt along the edge of the outsole, as I’m not a huge fan of faux functional stitching. That being said, I understand why they did it. You need extra space for a chunkier outsole and might as well put stitching there instead of nothing.

Summary

Overall, I’m surprised by just how good these Beckett Simonon Fuentes look in hand. The construction looks great, and the material choices are more than fair for the price point.

Sure, you can do the oversized jeans thing, but these wouldn’t look out of place with trousers and a sport coat. In fact, they might even do that better. While the guys over at Ask Andy would probably scoff, in my opinion you could even get away with a suit.

The versatility on this pair is so good, in the few weeks I’ve been wearing these to get a review together, they have become one of those “by the door” pairs since they go with just about anything I’m wearing to the office.

Fit & Comfort

Fit

The Becket Simonon Fuentes fits ever so slightly small. I got my pair in a size 12, and while going up to a 13 would be too big, a size 12.5 would have been perfect. The leather has a very small amount of give to it once you’ve worn them a few times, but you shouldn’t expect these to stretch out over time. If they don’t fit out of the box, they likely won’t ever fit.

If you have feet on the wider size or otherwise high-volume, I’d suggest going up half a size. However, if you have narrower or lower volume feet, you should be good to go with standard sizing.

If you do go too small, Beckett Simonon includes an extra set of insoles that can help take up some of the volume.

Comfort

The Beckett Simonon Fuentes is pretty comfortable overall, though not perfect. The primary drawback here is the more formal leather they use. It’s just a bit stiffer than you would find on a product that put comfort in front of style – similar to any other structured leather dress shoe. For similar reasons, I wouldn’t suggest going sockless in these.

At the same time, the lugged outsole gives plenty of squish under your foot. There is also a padded insole, but compared to the outsole that’s like adding a bucket of water to a pool. The outsole is doing the work.

While I wouldn’t be picking these if I was going to be sight seeing around a new city on vacation, these are easily comfortable enough to wear around the office all day, followed by dinner and a drinks without any issue.

Materials

When it comes to the Beckett Simonon Fuentes, the materials are good. Though, if there is almost any you don’t like, you’ll probably be able to find another option.

The upper on mine is the brown Full Grain calf. It is a stiff, dressier leather sourced from Italy that elevates the formality of the loafers. If that isn’t what you’re looking for, though, you can get these in a softer pull up leather or even suede. Both of those will offer more comfort, at the expense of a bit of formality.

Inside the upper, the shoe is lined with vachetta leather. This helps provide more structure, as well as keep everything smooth in there.

Under your foot, there is a thin open celled foam that sits on top of a thinner leather midsole. This is then attached to the outsole.

Speaking of that outsole, the entire unit is three piece, each made up of different combinations of EVA and rubber. The main outsole material is fairly soft – with the highest EVA content. The majority of the heel is a bit harder, which should give some additional durability. Finally, there is a thin piece that is the highest content of rubber where the heel meets the outsole.

While this might not be quite as long lasting as something like Danite, this set up seems to offer a really great balance between comfort, design, and resilience.

Pricing & Value

The Beckett Simonon Fuentes has an MSRP of $239 – but as with any Beckett Simonon shoe, you’re never going to pay that. At least, you never should.

Here is the one area where I always have a bit of a complaint with the brand. They are basically always offering some kind of sale. The exact category rotates, so this particular loafer might not be on sale, but even if it isn’t on sale the site constantly offers you 10-15% off. In effect, you’re almost certainly not going to pay more than around $200 for this pair.

The reason this annoys me is that Beckett Simonon doesn’t have to do this. The shoes they build are good value at the price they charge, there is no reason to try and anchor people looking to a higher MSRP.

Are the Beckett Simonon Fuentes Worth It?

When I first had this pair of Beckett Simonon Fuentes incoming, I had a hunch that I would like them. I had been looking for this style of shoe for a while. However, they exceeded my expectations – even if they were a bit more formal than I was expecting given their promo shots.