I selected this shoe after a professional shoe store owner fit my 2 1/2 year-old son. Lots of shoes are cute, but I wanted him to have better support now that he's active, runs quite a bit, visits theme parks largely without a stroller, etc... My son has a chubb foot (i.e., wide) and has low arches. This shoe fit him like a dream and gives much better cushioning than the "cutsie" shoes from Target and Converse. I also appreciate that this New Balance shoe comes in half sizes, like most better-made shoes do, in order to get the best fit. Amazon has the best price for this shoe, I save about 15-20% buying here than in a store. I got the first pair of NB shoes at the store in gratitude for the store owner's professional advice, but subsequent pairs have been through Amazon.
As a side note, the shoe store owner recommended that while a child is seated with a shoe on, shove their toes to the farthest forward position in the shoe (without forcing them to curl), then insert your own index finger in the gap behind the child's heel. You should be able to insert your finger by neither jamming it in nor seeing a lot of wiggle room. The finger should feel just right. That's a good fit. When I was a kid we used to do a test by pressing on the toe end of the shoe while the child was standing up, but some shoes are so sturdy that you can't feel much using the toe-press test.
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Just ordered theses shoes for the 3rd time for my 2 1/2 year old! He loves them and requests to wear them every time it is time to put on shoes. The navy is a great color that goes with all clothing and the style allows for a sneaker that isn't so sporty. Overall, couldn't be happier with these shoes!
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These are fairly easy to put on, and stay on unless he removes the velcro. They look nice. I had to buy him the extra-wide shoes, the wides weren't wide enough, so I am guessing the standard version of these shoes runs pretty narrow. He's always been in the 99%tile for weight, but I have not had to buy him wide shoes until this pair.
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I ordered these because I wanted a basic Navy/white sneaker that would be neutral and versatile with my son's casual/play clothes. I had a difficult time finding just that and these do fit the bill. My son has never needed 'wide' shoes before though his feet might lean toward the wide side a little bit. After reading the reviews, I decided to go for the XX wide in these. The reviews were right. These are none too wide in the 'XX wide'. They are comparable to many Medium width shoes we've had. The reviews about the Velcro strap are also correct. The strap has to be pulled more than normal to cover the connecting Velcro. It's as if they might have made the hull of the shoe wider but kept the strap length the same as their more narrow version. Anyway, we've made this sneaker work for us and the strap issue doesn't seem as awkward now that we've worn them in a bit; perhaps it has stretched a bit. The quality is fair; not outstanding for the price. We've had better. We do get use out of these shoes and are happy, at least, to have found this neutral, versatile color.
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It's hard to get kids shoe sizes exactly right but we ordered the same size as a shoe our son already had but this one was just too tight for him, so I sent it back and got a 10.5 Wide (instead of a 10). That fit great and he loves the show. I'd say that without the "wide" we just couldn't pull the velcro strap all the way over (and yet I've always thought of adult new balances as actually running on the wide side).
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