text: I liked the look (and price!--they were really discounted when I purchased them) of these shoes, but I ended up returning them. This shoe seemed about a half size too small and was difficult to even attempt to put on my son (he screamed). The fit was so small that I thought maybe I had forgotten to remove the tissue paper that they sometimes jam in the end of shoes, but that was not the case. My son is 85th percentile for height and weight, and I will admit that he has chubby feet. I think the &#34;V&#34; cross-strap style of these might not be good for kids with chubby feet because, as least for me, it was hard to pull the strap over far enough to fasten over the Velcro &#34;footprint&#34;. I have not had this fit problem with other Stride Rite shoes, and in fact I kept some of the other pairs that I purchased along with these.