I loved this model, and at smaller/smallest sizes I ordered bigger because he grows half a size every 3 months, so we ordered one and a half big, and it meant they lasted pretty much the whole year til it was sock season again. I'm now scoring the second pair, and kinda sad because stride rite stores all vanished, and it makes me fear that the cheapest offerings from guanxhu shoe city will obliterate all of the last american shoe companies, and I am not sinophobic at all. Guangxhu can make some of the best things, but the government only subsidizes packages up to 4.2 lbs so... its a true blanket statement that chinese made shoes will always be lighter. I know we're talking about kids shoes, but... it affects everything. We need to be able to make shoes inside our borders, and the only way to protect that is buying UFCW union women made shoes right here as in cases of Corcoran, Chippewa, and Thorogood (and of those only Thorogood makes a child's boot and its not one we can wear in Texas summers).

I really hate seeing nothing but reviews from really daffy housewives, so I hope mine displaces some of them. I know good footwear, and I loved this sandal. It took a ferocious beating. My boy is rowdy.