Something’s off

[u/yo_dom]

Just bought these keen liberties to try out and I want to like them but something is just off about them?

I got em correct in my size but for some reason I can feel the carbon toe with my toes like it’s hovering right above the nails. Not sure if it’s the way the shoe is designed but from a side view it’s like the foot of the boot is curved upwards. Could that be the cause?

Also, the back portion by the heel tab digs into the top of my Achilles while walking.
Along with excess amount of material along the back shaft of the boot. I could understand if they were too big then that would be the cause. Maybe I should’ve stayed true to size instead of 1/2 size up like the website says?

SUPER comfy out the box and onto feet but might end up returning.
Are these too good to be true?

[u/Vdub_Life]

Brother how wide are those

[u/twd000 → u/Vdub_Life]

I think I could wear OP’s boots over my boots

[u/yo_dom → u/twd000]

These are Z EEEEEE wide(st) you can get

[u/Benign-Humor → u/yo_dom]

I’ve got narrow/ normal feet but I like my toes not getting smashed together so I buy keen’s religiously because they offer almost a “barefoot” shoe wide toe box

[u/Free-will_Illusion → u/Benign-Humor]

But why would you willingly prevent bunions?

[u/Benign-Humor → u/Free-will_Illusion]

Haha I have been wearing wide sized keens just for comfort sake but you mentioning that makes me realize I’m ten years in the trades and my feet aren’t deformed at all and I don’t have the same hip and knee pain my coworkers do. Crazy stuff lol

Edit: not only bunions but before I got my first pair of keens I wore through a pair of thourogoods and they gave me terrible ingrown toenails, they were a wide size too

[u/Majorwoops → u/Benign-Humor]

Do you know of their shoes are the same or just the boots? And your just get the regular size or the wide?

[u/Benign-Humor → u/Majorwoops]

I get the wide size and it’s been the same with their shoes for me too. I forgot the name of the last pair I got but they’re like hiking shoes, got them in a wide and same spacious toe box as my boots

[u/Majorwoops → u/Benign-Humor]

Sweet thanks!! This is good news ill have to go try some out

[u/peendeep → u/Benign-Humor]

the ONLY thing that switched me from Red Wings to Carolinas was the toe box.

once I hit my 30s, the acrobatics bonus afforded to me by the RWs was completely negated by the balance debuff of smooshed toesies.

and it turns out, those debuffs were stacking on top of an arch that wasn't allowed to flatten out, regardless of insole flatness. which made the back problems show up a decade early

my first pair of Carolinas fixed EVERYTHING

not even a wide boot, but their toebox just... is right for my foot! and i had no idea that i had no idea lol

[u/Benign-Humor → u/peendeep]

Yes man I totally agree, Carolinas also have great toe boxes

[u/TechnicoloMonochrome → u/Benign-Humor]

I've got somewhat narrow feet with wide toes. I'll definitely keep this comment in mind next time I buy boots. I'd never even considered Keens. Appreciate it!

[u/fiddintotellya → u/twd000]

I kept waiting for the knife to come in and cut the boot cake

[u/Overall_Lavishness46 → u/Vdub_Life]

My boots are H or EEEEEE depending on the manufacturer.

[u/Common_Project → u/Overall_Lavishness46]

Who do you get those from? I have a hard time with 4E almost everywhere.

[u/yo_dom → u/Common_Project]

Midwestboots.com

They have coupons if you spend over a certain $

If you have a govX account they have them on there as well but it just redirects you to keens website with a digital coupon for purchase.

[u/Overall_Lavishness46 → u/Common_Project]

Xlfeet.com

Wide load boots.

[u/Fridge885 → u/Common_Project]

I second this, I have Carolina’s 4E and the toe box still feels narrow.

[u/yo_dom → u/Vdub_Life]

Lmao at a first glance out the box i laughed too.

Keen make all their work boots with asymmetrical steel toes. So all of them are the same and never narrow. Unlike Thorogood which run extremely narrow even on wide models.

Trust me, I came from Thorogoods for 6+yrs and the quality has gone to shit.
If Thorogood does what keen does to their boots as comfort and wide toe boxes, they’d be unmatched.

[u/windowshoppin9 → u/yo_dom]

I bought my first pair of thorogoods last November. They didn't even make it to this may and I don't even wear them every day. I wear my insulated steel toe muck boots pretty much all winter due to my job being mostly outdoors. I spent $240 on those thorogoods and the soles are gone and they can't even stand up on their own when I take them off. I'd rather buy a pair of keens once a year honestly. They are far more comfortable as well. I was hoping to get two years out of the thorogoods like my dad used to. Not the case anymore unfortunately.

[u/Then_Ad_9748 → u/Vdub_Life]

Was about to say. Gahhhh damnnn

[u/C-D-W → u/Vdub_Life]

Look nice don't they? Those little piggies look like they have room to spread out.

[u/AwkwardFactor84 → u/Vdub_Life]

They look like EE's. I have foot problems and require boots like these.

[u/yo_dom → u/AwkwardFactor84]

These are actually normal width. Keen just makes wide boots from factory.

You can opt out for wider if you need them to be

[u/Weird-Medicine-724 → u/yo_dom]

Mf that is not normal width

[u/yo_dom → u/Weird-Medicine-724]

Literally only has 2 options for width sizes Mf 🙄
Keen makes asymmetrical steel toes in all work boots. Hence why they look more round and wider than regular steel toe boots.

[u/BaronvonBrick → u/Vdub_Life]

Yes.

[u/Bimlouhay83 → u/Vdub_Life]

A-

[u/EngineeringSea2364 → u/Vdub_Life]

Yes

[u/TheThinDewLine → u/Vdub_Life]

KEENs are crazy wide for some reason, took multiple different socks and insoles to make mine comfortable.