text: These shoes are fairly comfortable - I walk a lot at work, sometimes carrying heavy things, and I feel very stable and my feet are comfortable for several hours. By the end of the day the balls of my feet were a little sore. The toe box area is tapered to an odd point and very narrow, and the rest of the shoe/strap area is a little wider than I expected, but I have very narrow feet. My big toe sometimes is slightly over the edge of the shoe SIDE (not end) because of the tapering, but it's not uncomfortable at all. The little fabric &#34;tongue&#34; on the top of the shoe sticks down into my toes and rubbed a bit when I first had the smaller size, but I exchanged it for a larger size and now it doesn't rub uncomfortably. I usually wear size 9, but got a 9.5 in these. Glad I did.