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Amazon Customer
March 08, 2024
Great Beginner Shoe
The product fits a half size larger than a normal shoe. It is comfortable and a good fit for tap dance. As I have just started taking tap,lesson it is a great shoe to start learning the dance steps.
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GirlyMom50
December 07, 2011
Great Shoe, Fantastic Price
My Daughter is a competitive dancer, and her team uses these shoes. You should order a half size up from street shoe size. They have a strong toe box to support the foot during toe lifts, and they are split sole so their feet can bend. The leather is very soft, and insole is cushioned. The shoe is finished with a nice smooth cushioned edge around the ankle and is cut low so it won't cut in. And the teletone taps have a great sound! This is our 4th pair, and I was so happy to find them here, best price online. These shoes retail for $80
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Nice shoes but prefer the Bloch
I'm a beginner at tap and I initially bought the Bloch Women's Tap-Flex Tap Shoe in my street size (5.5). It was a little tight, so I ordered the Capezio Women's Flex Master Tap shoe in a size 6. Though the shoes fit well, I found that I preferred the construction of the Bloch and returned the Capezio. Both are nice shoes and sound great. Here's a comparison:Capezio Flex master:- Shape is different. It looks and feels somewhat like a ballet shoe mounted on heels- Very soft and flexible right out of the box. In fact, too soft and flexible for me because I could feel the edge of the heel transfer through to the insole. Probably something to get used to with time, but I found the feeling distracting.- The heel is rather long and extends forward almost to the arch. This may not be a problem in larger size shoes. The Bloch heel stayed well back from the arch.- The blue insole is comfortable at the heel but stops just beyond the arch. The ball and toe area appear unfinished inside and I kept feeling the transition through my socks.Bloch Tap-Flex:- Shaped more like an Oxford, wider at the ball and tapering toward the toes- Soft leather upper. The flex sole is stiffer out of the box than the Capezio. A couple of weeks and the flexibility has improved while still providing support.- There is no stitching around the support at the back of the shoe in the Achilles tendon area. The edge of the support caused some friction but nothing a pair of socks will not mask.Hope that helps!
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Sunrise
September 03, 2024
Excellent tap shoes
They are flexible and super comfortable. I haven't had a pair of tap shoes in a while, and I put them on and remembered all the steps. Lots of fun!
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Adriano's Mom
October 24, 2013
Merely Ok for an Irish dancer
For my needs, this shoe is merely okay. I'm an Irish step dance instructor; a tap shoe is a compromise to make sound but not have the discomfort of wearing Irish hard shoes for hours a day. I probably wear the shoes 4-6 hours a week for the school year and one month over the summer.The shoe sizes street shoe to slightly small - I'm a 6 1/2 or 7, and the 6 1/2 fits me; I wear a 7 1/2 Bloch dance sneaker. We all know you have to experiment with dance shoe sizes.The taps are okay to slightly muffled, some of which goes away with a little bit of use. The shoes are really flexible; you can do toe stands easily.The shoes come with a blue poron (high density foam) inner sole, which for some odd reason runs from the rear of the shoe through the arch, but the ball of the shoe is not cushion. This is a mystery to me - I think tap dancers, like me, spend more time on the ball of the foot than the heel, so why the padding doesn't extend there is baffling. The inner sole does crack over time (8-10 months) from going up on toes and pointing, but it doesn't make the shoe uncomfortable.I can see that having the inner sole cover the entire shoe bed would mean more cracking, but surely they could have separate pad at the ball of the foot, and keep a heel pad if needed. Why the arch needs padding is unclear.I think I'd like the oxford better if it had one more eyelet of lacing. Sometimes I feel like I can't snug the shoe to my foot sufficiently, especially for going on toes.For my purposes, the heel is somewhat of a bummer. We use our heels for clicks in Irish, which I realize is not a requirement for tap shoes. This shoe at least doesn't have a leather wrapped heel, which looks ratty after about a week in my case (sorry Bloch). My absolute favorite shoe by Leo's, since discontinued, had a solid, high-density plastic heel, and it was great. These shoes do have a solid heel, but it's softer, and it doesn't get a nice click, just a dull thunk, unless I catch the tap edges and then I get a metallic snick, which is okay, but a lot harder to do.The shoes look okay on my feet, which not all tap shoes do, although my Leos looked better. My foot is rather wide at the ball.My first pair lasted a year, and despite the cracked inner sole, I probably would have kept them longer but one shoe stretched out too much due to a foot brace I wore for much of last year. Now that I'm not wearing it, I can't tighten the shoe enough. This is somewhat an issue even with the brand new pair, so I think the lacing/eyelet placement is also part of the issue. The leather is heavier than on my Leos (tho not my Blochs), and on my Leos the seam tends to give by my big toe, which isn't an issue with these shoes.
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Best tap shoes ever
After the first time wearing these shoes, I loved them. They are comfortable and very nicely padded, especially on the back of the heel. My feet didn't feel strained at all after dancing.I'm not sure what the break in process is like for them, if any, but I can't imagine them fitting any better than they did out of the box. I wish I'd purchased them sooner.The only downfall (if you can call it that) is that without the support of a sole, some of my sounds dragged a little bit until I retrained my feet. But I assume that would be the case with any new, unfamiliar shoe.I bought the same size as I typically wear in street shoes.
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Run very small
I needed to return..shoes are great quality..but very narrow and the run very small…I’m a 9.5 M in a street shoe..I purchased a 10M…returned back to Amazon with no problem
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