These are really cute shoes. They have good support and good cushioning when you're walking on asphalt. However, it's difficult to get the laces tighter. For some reason, you have to tighten along the laces from the bottom and then go up. It took me a while to figure out how to get the laces to work the way that I wanted them to.<br /><br />The muscles on the bottom of my feet hurt when I do cardio so I thought that the arch support would help. Not so in this case. My feet were burning about 1/2 mile into my walk but they adjusted. I'll keep wearing them to see if breaking them in will help.