The left shoe is awesome, the right shoe hurts the outside of my foot. I thought I just needed to break them in but it never improved. I think there is a manufacturers defect in the right shoe as I have never had a shoe bother my foot like this one. By time I figured it would never get better, it was too late to return them to Amazon (wishing I had shopped REI). I like the looks of these shoes and needed a pair of gortex hiking shoes to compliment my taller hiking boots. I have taken them to a shoe repair place for stretching in the bad spot and they improved somewhat. I think I will try a second treatment at the shoe doctor because I hate throwing money out the window.