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Scottsdale
August 14, 2013
Fits an 11 wide high instep
We bought this for our dancer who has 11 wide Egyptian feet with high insteps.Plain and simple this is a great shoe!If we could get it as a street shoe my daughter would live exclusively in these Pro 1'sAs a parent I thought I'd write a review for others in a similar situation to ours. The local dance stores do not carry pink leather shoes in the sizes we need so we are extremely grateful for Amazon.Pro:The length is perfect for an 11 wide.Our dancer's high instep is very hard to fit and these do not cut into the foot.No ingrown toenail problems with the Pro 1IMHO better for Greek/Morton's or Giselle/Roman FeetCons:Your type of feet may affect the look of the pointed foot.IMHO not for extremely tapered Egyptian feet if you have one of the rare exacting techniques teachers.Our dancer's extremely tapered toes adversely affect the look of the Pro 1 shoe when pointing her toes. The leather in front of the tapered toes area bunches up and makes it hard for the teacher to see if the toes are pointed when doing tendus. We bought the Sansha Silhouette in the same size and it was a more flattering fit for our dancer's extremely tapered toes. With she tendus with the Silhouette there is a tiny bit of excess material but significantly less than the Pro 1. The Silhouette's are fine for the ballet classes at her dance studio. However our dancer just added private lessons with a highly sought after technique teacher across town who is less than pleased with the shoe so I am going to get Sansha's Silhouette 14W and pray it stretches enough to not hurt my dancers toes. These Pro 1 we will keep for her dance studio classes were the ballet teacher is less exacting about the shoes.
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Amazon Customer
December 19, 2025
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Love these!! Very well made and heel elastics were already attached
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Michelle
September 18, 2014
Nice leather but sizing is awful
These shoes have a nice, somewhat thicker leather. However, as many others have said, the sizing is completely off. I know that ballet shoe sizing can be weird, but these were way off. It says to order 2 sizes up from your street size. My daughter wears a size 9 shoe so I order a size 11 slipper. They were too small. I am thankful for Prime and return shipping otherwise it would be really frustrating.
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Old Man in Oklahoma
September 12, 2013
Runs small nice shoe, Fantastic for my use!
The only shoe i every found that fit was a J.B. Stetson in a 14 AAA with AAAAAA heal in 1969. When I tried custom cow boy boots Dixon in Wichita Falls Texas could almost do the job but the heel was still loose.These fit as well as any ever owned noting they ran small I ordered 20 wide and they are OK. I will order more to wear around the house when my toe heals up.I bought them so I could cut out a place for my big toe that has just had the nail removed and then bandage the toe and shoe together when I go out to keep stuff out of the wound. Most of the time the toe is open to the air so it heals faster.A 70 year old fat man get some odd looks in them too.GC.
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Will Buy Again
Great fit. Top Quality. Fast Transit!
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Nice ballet slipper -runs very small
Overall I'm happy with these leather ballet slippers. seem very well made. I wear a size 8 sneaker and needed a size 11 in this slipper. I bought a size 10 in the sansha canvas version and they were a tad too small. So order up from your street size by 2 to 3 sizes. They came with a mesh drawstring bag which is a nice touch.
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Comfort Guy
April 08, 2012
Comfortable slipper for a non-dancer!
Let me start off by saying I'm not a dancer but I recently had some surgery and needed some slippers, that would allow me to get back on my feet, as it were. So my wife urged me to try these and at first I balked at the idea but went along with her wishes. Well as it turned out, these slippers are simply fantastic! They take a few hours of wear to break in but after that, it doesn't get any better! These are made of good quality soft leather and I would think a real dancer would appreciate that; I know I have! Thanks Sansha!
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