These shoes looked identical to the others I've been buying for decades. Saucony has always been the best fitting shoes for me. I have a bunion on my left foot and another forming on the other. There are silver strips that constrain that area of the foot and it meant that the shoes never fully conformed to my feet. Ouch. Will still get Saucony, but avoid models that have too much structure in the side of the ball of the foot.