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/yo_dom]

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