Made a new account and signed in just to concur that Propét shoes are a godsend for me.
My feet are around a 9.5 W...... except that I have tailors bunions on both feet, so I need the toe box of a 9.5 XXW (4E). But of course, the back part of my foot is not wider to match. Also, I can only wear shoes with removable insoles so that I can put my fancy expensive insoles into them instead.
The ONLY styles of shoes I can currently wear are:
That's... it. I've tried just about every other Propét style. I've tried Naturalizer, I've tried Clarks, I've tried New Balance, Brooks, some really high-end stuff from Footwear Etc... Big fat nothing worked, even with stretching the toe box.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if a pair is okay or not when I'm trying them on, but when I take them off and it's a goddamned _huge relief_, that makes it pretty obvious. :(
And I agree re: sales. I'd pay full price for any of the above if I had to, but I set up 3camels alerts for the Delaney and the Alice to snatch them up when they hit the right price point.