For someone usually barefoot, it was a dream come true finding these shoes. I'm on my 3rd pair. The shoes are great, particularly in my sandy, salty, muddy, wet haunts, and I concur with every positive comment every reviewer has made. BUT!!! I just received a new pair and the opening hole for the foot is noticeably larger. I measured 32 cm circumference compared to a 29.5 cm circumference in the pair I bought in early 2022. That's an inch (2.5 cm) bigger! So, instead of the lining comfortably hugging my foot/heel/ankle and keeping out most gunk, there's a big gap all around my foot that allows easy entry of sandspurs, small gravel, coquina, twigs, etc. I love the shoes, but can no longer claim they're ideal except in an urban environment or when wearing thick socks. I don't get it. The old linings flexed enough or could be laced looser to allow Fred Flintstone feet, but the new shoes can't be tightened in any way to snug the lining. I love Loyaks but this is a headscratcher.
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