I want to give these shoes 4.5 stars but I have to send back.  First let me say that the packaging was the best I have ever seen.  Shoes arrived in a box that contained a shoe box and in the shoe box each shoe was put in a cloth bag and well set.  The shoes themselves are lovelier than the picture and so easy to put on, but the front band is just too tight across my foot.  I am a size 6 medium width with a high instep and rarely have trouble with shoes being tight.  It just might be the shape of them.  I never walked in them because they hurt even before I put pressure (stood in them).  I stood for about 15 seconds and realized that no matter how cute they are and how good of a price, they are never going to work.  You can see by the pictures that these did run true to size.