Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Never...NEVER...would I have ever dreamed that ISOTONER would OR could let me down so profoundly especially when it came to my old standby THE terry balareena flat/slipper!!! UNTHINKABLE yet true nonetheless. I wear a size 8-8.5 in shoes, boots etc, sometimes a straight 8 in saddles or open footwear. So, I ordered the Large as the size chart references sizes 8-9---and my big toe was easily an inch past the rubberized sole and stubbed by the fullest extent of material...back they went and I ordered an XL, the next size option up, though their chart referenced a size 9.5 -10.5!!! Quite obviously they, like so many other products/clothing are SUDDENDLY being made much smaller sooooo, okay. Well, they are falling off my feet unless I shuffle which is utterly obsurd not to mention difficult given the sole. I thought of washing and DRYING them, but then thought better of it. And now almost every single review I've read for a similar slipper, regardless of manufacturer or material, ultimately describes the SAME problem either in sizing or in overall quality by comparison to the buyers past purchases of the same item. It appears that we are almost uniformly getting used to "sizing up" given the shift to offshore manufacturing. I'm a fairly liberal/"BLUE" person politically (Phil Ochs is laughing over that line), but come on guys, get your act together!! And to the brands that have been 'household names for decades, if you're going to shift to off shore manufacturing, institute some target-market-specific standards and quality control that doesn't leave your FORMER reputation in the dust!! ...okay, putting my 'soap box' away...Amazon customer service, PLEASE don't blacklist me, but I've got yet another return...