These shoes are really cute but they aren't very flexible which seems to be poor design for a little kids shoe. I bought these for my easy to please child and could never get her to wear them. She said they hurt her feet. I'm giving these a 3 because there could be several other reasons why these didn't work but I couldn't give them a 4 or 5 because for $50 dollars they should have set themselves apart more from the usual $30 kid shoes. The only way they did was maybe the style. But the shoes material again wasn't flexible and it's hard to imagine what kid would enjoy wearing these shoes.