text: These shoes are as horrible as the bad reviews claim they are, and I should have listened to their wisdom. The upper is a thin, flimsy material like the thin craft foam you'd buy at Michael's or Joann's, and both shoes were bent/creased around the foot opening from either poor storage or rough shipping (they were sent in a baggie-type envelope rather than box); this made them completely unsightly. I'm a size 7 1/2 but typically need to order up with nice leather clogs - so I made the mistake of ordering an 8; these, however, were HUGE, overly wide, and floppy...I probably could have fit in a 6 easily. Perhaps these are men's shoes and I should have ordered two sizes down? Who knows. To top it all off, they're very &#34;squishy&#34; when you walk. I'm sure someone thought it'd be a good idea to make them like this for &#34;comfort&#34; or something, but what it does instead is a) not give any arch support, and b) make it completely unstable as you walk. If you're a nurse who needs to be zipping around all the time, these are NOT the shoes for you.