Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I didn't realize how much a platform sole helped prevent leg pain (knee, foot, ankle, etc.) until I began to wear woven-wedge platform shoes in 2015. I ordered these knowing from 4+ years' experience that shoes manufactured to European or Asian specifications ALWAYS--ALWAYS--run large. I'll repeat that: even brand names, "B**** M**" for example, run LARGE because the vamp is too wide for North American feet. I know from experience that the vamps of the exact same shoe, manufactured for North American width feet, are always narrower than that exact same shoe purchased from an overseas vendor. How do I know this? Because a major American retailer offered woven elastic shoes for 1/4 the cost of the brand name (B**** M**) in 2015, and the vamps of those dirt-cheap shoes were narrower than the European/Asian-sized. These shoes are FANTASTIC. If you order them in your normal North American size, you will be returning them because they're too big. Order them and start loving them, but order them at least 1/2 size smaller and even an entire size smaller, depending on how well your foot fills out your normal North American size.