The left shoe ankle strap was much too tight, an obvious manufacturing defect. Amazon sent a replacement pair in which the metallic stitching on the left ankle strap was broken leaving sharp, scratchy pieces. I think the strap on the 2nd pair was stretched to make it larger but this ruined the stitching. I returned both pairs writing it off to a manufacturing issue with that shoe lot. I also purchased the multi-colored metallic stitching version of the same shoe and they are very comfortable and fit perfectly, I get lots of compliments on them!