text: These shoes are ridiculously wide at the toes but very narrow at the heel, so they're a bear to put on your feet if you pull the laces tight for the toes!  I'm not exaggerating when I say I could probably wear a set of pedicure toe separators and still have room left over at the toe box! The length was also longer than my previous pairs of Mizuno shoes, perhaps because this model was made in China and my previous pairs were made in Vietnam.  But since the seller I purchased from has THE worst return policy (no exchanges for smaller size; buyer pays $30 in postage fees if they don't fit! $10 for original postage, plus $10 return postage, plus $10 to order the smaller size) I'll just give these away and eat the $35 loss. I'll also be more careful about reading the fine print on individual seller's return policies here.