Aren't your toes jammed together when you're wearing shoes anyway?
Around my own house I don't usually wear socks unless it's cold.
Around my own house I don't usually wear socks unless it's cold.
And the width is set at average, so it fits very few people. Also the non-foot shape makes it so the few shoes that do offer different widths still fail to fit.
Not related to the company, just a satisfied customer. I actually wear toe socks inside my Altras whenever I'm doing a long hike, like (say) the Enchantments in WA state.
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Too bad they don't make them anymore. The Altra Superior is probably the closest one, similar shape and low stack height. And if nothing else, there's the venerable Lone Peak with which it is hard to go too far wrong.
FYI Vegas store for those interested: https://www.yelp.com/biz/cesars-shoe-world-las-vegas-3
Another brand to checkout is Lems are other brands to checkout. They do have some running type shoes, but I'm only familiar with their casual shoes. I reallly recommend getting some Lems for daily use.
Second the LEMS though - not quite barefoot but definitely minimal.
I highly disagree with the notion that things that look pleasing to the eyes are "vanity". I also disagree that taste is vanity.
Wearing Crocs is one thing. Wearing Crocs and calling those who don't vanitous is something else altogether.
I agree Crocs are ugly. Shoes don’t have to look like crocs to be anatomically functional.
Also people don’t get shoes that fit well because they don’t know shoes that fit well exist because they barely exist.
Altra and Topo make some shoes that fit okay but still are only going to fit certain small segments of the population.
Altra’s size wide also is the common wide = more volume but not actually wider ridiculousness. People don’t buy shoes that fit because they don’t know they exist nor do they realize their shoes don’t actually fit. But even if they did realize both things, most people would not have access to the few modes that fit better.
They're not supposed to be, but most shoes are terribly fit if you have any sort of less than ideal feet.
It took me years to realise, but (alongside a whole host of other issues) I turn out to have pretty "wide" feet at the front.
After decades of wearing shoes the toes literally overlap, if I walk middle distances unless I add some sort of separator (e.g. toe socks, which is not comfortable as it forces toes apart when they got misshapen to bunch up) even in open-toed shoes my toes are so deformed they'll stab one another: the nail of the 5th and 4th toes will scrape against the previous toe until they break the skin and fill my socks with blood.