My Mother has a pair of black ballerina flats that she wears to church on Sundays.  She is a 80+ woman with painful bunions on both feet.  This shoe stretcher has helped tremendously in stretching those areas where the bunions are located.  I will try to stretch the shoe 1-3 days before Sunday.  She has gone from walking painfully to telling me her shoes "aren't too bad."  Life can't be perfect but at least we can make it a little less painful--I think this product did just that.