Every other pair of Frye's I own: I'm a solid 8.5.
After reading reviews, I took a gamble on ordering the 8.5 again and even after wearing them for 5 minutes around the house yesterday afternoon my heels STILL hurt.
Cute on and the smoke color is a nice, dark grey, I have to return these.
Going to probably try and reorder a half (or honestly full) size up once I'm refunded.