text: I purchased these shoes for my 15-month-old. The first time we purchased them in his size and we had to return them because they were about a half size too small. I like the look of these shoes and they look like they will last. We ended up purchasing these shoes a full size up so my son would have something to grow into, so I can't comment on their actual performance yet.<br />UPDATE: My son has finally grown into these shoes and has worn them on and off for the past 2 weeks. There is a tab at the back of the shoe and now I know why. At least for my kid, these shoes are super difficult to get on his foot so that tab is there to assist the parent in pulling the shoe on to the kid's foot. I don't know what the deal is. Maybe these shoes are narrow or something (although once they are on his foot, my son seems fine with them), but I have never encountered such problems putting a shoe on a kid's foot. We undo the Velcro all the way and open these up as wide as they will go and still it's a struggle to get them on his foot. If he didn't have room to spare in the toe box and seems perfectly fine once we get them on him, I wouldn't continue to put them on. These are really cute shoes but we struggle to get them on our son's feet. His feet are pretty chubby so maybe kids with normal or narrow feet wouldn't have the same issue...