text: These shoes could have been great...here are my observations (I used to be a shoe designer)....<br /><br />Pros:<br />1. They're a good height -- you can actually walk in them. I could have worn them for hours.<br />2. The foot bed is padded and not super narrow at the ball of the foot<br />3. They have decent arch support<br />4. The heel is nice and sturdy<br />5. The design is very cool -- modern, substantial without being too clunky, a nice balance between dressy and casual<br /><br />Cons - a few very bad and obvious problems with the design and manufacture:<br />1. The counter (the part that holds your heel) starts too far back and the material used is cheap and not stiff enough to hold the heel in place, leading to slipping and buckling -- how on earth was did they miss this?<br />2. The toe strap is a bit wide for the average American woman's foot -- err on the side of tighter and those who wish to can stretch it. It should have been more angled, too<br />3. The above two problems, as is the case with most shoes made in crappy Chinese factories (there are some decent ones, believe it or not), would probably have been caught if they would stop fitting shoes for the western market on Chinese fit models! On the whole, our feet are NOT the same shape as Chinese women's feet. Also, someone who understands both the aesthetics AND technical aspects of shoe design should be designing their shoes and should be present during fittings.<br /><br />Bummer, they were super cute.