When you put on a good pair of hiking sandals, you shouldn't have your toes way, way back behind the front edge, or way over the front, or way off on one edge. Your foot should actually fit on the sandal and it should be a comfortable fit fore and aft, and left and right.
We make sandals with different widths and different lengths to accommodate most foot sizes and shapes. And our do-it-yourself sandal-making kit let's you trim the sole cut to match any shape of almost any foot.
When you put on the sandal you want to go for what I refer to as a snug-but-comfortable feel. Many people try to over-tighten around the toe area. They think that's the thing that's holding them into the sandal, but it's actually the area that goes around your ankle that holds you in.
So you want to go for something that feels comfortable and feels secure, but not that's ratcheting you down to the sole. In fact, many people find that they end up loosening the area around the toe strap more than they expected, and that's totally, totally fine. It still stays stable on the sandal because of how it holds across the top of their foot and around their ankle.
There’s more fitting instructions in the videos on this page.