text: The shoes are okay.  Easy Spirit made a big mistake by discontinuing the similar version with much thicker soles.  The thick soles made the shoes very comfortable and easy to wear for long periods.  In addition, though the soles were thick, they were very pliable and bent with your arch as you walked.  With these shoes, the thinner soles don't give in the arch and it's more like you're clunking down flat feet, rather than bending them at the arch as you should.  I hope Easy Spirit comes to their senses.