My son has really wide feet with low arches and is very picky about his shoes - he loves these. This was the fourth pair we've purchased, and when he wears these out, we'll get some more! He says they are really comfortable, and I know they are because they are the first shoes he's had that he doesn't complain about. He won't untie them to put them on and off, so we now have shoe horns for him, otherwise sliding them on over time wears out the inside of the back of the heel - there's a sharp metal or plastic piece in there to keep the heel stiff which pokes through over months of his sliding them on and wearing out the fabric at the back of the heel. A shoe horn handles that - the last pair lasted until he'd outgrown them and they started to come apart at the seams around the toes. Good shoes, good value.