These shoes are well constructed and of pretty good quality but if they are 5 times wider then I'm the uncle to the monkeys! The width of the Propet shoes seems to have changed. They are still quite long but the width has decreased to the point where within a few hours they are now squeezing the sides of my legs to the point where they are causing serious pain. I'm very disappointed but it would be too expensive to send them back from Australia so I'll just book you win some and lose some.