As soon as i got these, I broke them in. (AKA I wore them from 6 am to 11 PM for 3 days in a row). I wore them in public, got a few strange looks, but I consoled myself with the thought that if they knew how amazingly comfortable and nice they were, they would change their mind....quickly. I bought them originally as watershoes, but when the time came to use them as watershoes (i went camping with them), they ended up being sitting-in-the-car-for-5-hour shoes, walking-from-the-tent-to-the-showers shoes, hiking-through-woods shoes, and of course, water shoes. Get these and never look back!