Loved these right out of the box.  I can't believe how comfortable they are for a flat shoe! Having read the other reviews, I was ready for them to be big and the left one was significantly looser than the right - but I have two different sized feet and I am used to it.  Wore them around the house for about ten minutes and the other one loosened up.  Well worth the $, especially considering Eddie Bauer was charging twice what I paid on Amazon.