text: I'm giving it 2 stars because the color of these shoes look great and the design looks great. My issue with the shoe is with the collar and the toe space. I typically wear a large 13 in tennis shoe, and 14-16 in dress shoes.<br /><br />DISLIKES<br />1st, the collar, the part of the shoe at the heel that rests against your achilles tendon/back of ankle. The collar of this shoe is too rigid, and dug into the back of both my ankles with every step. After just one full day of wearing them, this caused open sores on both of my ankles. There's absolutely no flexibility or give in the collar of this shoe.<br /><br />2nd, the space for toe width is extremely constrictive.I believe if I would have upgraded to a size 14 to a 15, it would not have helped much. Moving to a size 15 would have only made the shoe much longer looking more like a clown shoe.<br /><br />LIKES<br />1st, the shoe looks good, really good. The material that is used to make this shoe also looks impressive. I got a compliment on this shoe the only day I ever wore them.<br /><br />SUMMARY<br />The size 14 that I purchased, was painfully rigid. I would not recommend this shoe to a friend.