I really like the padding of these shoes. I work standing mostly all day and these shoes did not give me a hard time. I like the lace look. Two things though: 1) It is a little wider in width than I expected, I wear medium and this one definitely is wide for my size. 2) Being it already wider, my pinky toenails keeps getting caught/brushed in the lace webbing inside (I have very short nails and no, my feet were not dry, in fact I lathered them with lotion thinking that might solve the issue that maybe my nails are just dry somewhat? But didn't do the trick). Except for these little issues, I love these shoes and will continue wearing them.