I've been looking for the right shoes for my wedding. I had put this shoe on the Amazon shopping list and wanted to try it on in the store again (I know - something you do not do ...), because I'm such a back-chic-muffle. In shoes with heels I always take one size smaller because the foot from sliding forward and yes we shuffled back out if you look at "the front must still be some air!" At Mama`s - keeps statement. I found him in the shop - where he actually more than double the cost than on Amazon. Back home I ordered him then, and shortly thereafter he was already on. The packaging was really classy. Even a shoe bag was there - which was very convenient for the Hock time - I have changed the evening in white ballerinas. The shoes fit like a glove and sales had a - for me - perfect and very comfortable height. I have the shoes before the wedding always attracted to a boil them einzulaufen (which was probably not necessary - but better safe than sorry). On the wedding day, they were so comfortable that I slipped around 2:00 clock in the morning only on principle in my ballet flats because I would not let them unworn. The substance is very sensitive so you should really put the shoes to enter only in the house and not possible to run on your wedding day by a mud puddle (like me). But that is the nature of the substance which is very classy and looks really great.