these shoes are good for people with jacked up crookedy/ crowdy toes that can't keep out of each other's bidness. I got them for my mom, as she has jacked up toes like that. I, although overwhelmingly a loser in almost every other aspect of life, possess wholly beautiful feet with beautiful straight toes that stay out of each other's bidness. I do not have to wear those spongy thingies when I get pedicures because my toes behave themselves and keep in their proper place and do not ruin each other's polish. I am very proud of my feet and toes. However, back to the subject of shoes for people with jacked up toes.... These shoes did not work well for my mom. The reason being, that these shoes are made for people who have short feet with long jacked up toes and my mom has longer feet with shorter jacked up toes. So if you don't have short feet with long jacked up toes that look like long and jacked up fingers (aka Renaissance toes), these shoes will not work for you. Alas, I am too lazy to have sent them back yet and they languish unused and unloved in the bowels (trunk) of my car. One day soon, I'm gonna send em back.... Mark my words....

(oh yeah, those plasticky things between the toes hurt too, possibly adding injury to the already insult of having jacked up toes) "I feel for you people, I really do." She said ever so smugly whilst admiring her own attractive feet with the smooth straight toes who keep primly to themselves....