Reebok Work Men's Athletic Oxford Industrial & Construction Shoe

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Tested for 6 months in an engineering environment. Hurt my feet for a week breaking them in and getting my feet used to a new pair of shoes. They wear extremely well. They arent hot. Not heavy either. Once broken in they are very comfortable. No one believed that my shoes were steel toe until I clicked the toe against metal. They look very practical. Everyone was interested in them. They arent cheap but if your in maintenance or engineering (specifically hotel or property maintenance) these are excellent. Best shoes I found after a decade in the industry. Walking at least 3 miles a day, average of 5 miles a day and a max of 7 miles a day. Hotel engineering is no joke. Neither are these shoes. On your feet all day in a demanding environment with everyone running you around as if your not human? Get these shoes. Want to kick your director of engineering or GM in the nads? Get these shoes and stay safe while doing it! Insoles are still intact after 6 months. And Im 58 280lbs. These shoes are incredible. Best purchase Ive made in months.

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The search has finally ended. I have wide feet and they sweat a lot. I am also in my shoes for 12-14hrs a day lots of walking mostly on concrete floors and climbing stairs and ladders. Day 3 with shoes The GOOD Virtually no time needed to break in Comfortable even the first day I ordered a half size bigger and plenty of room in the front for my toes to move The shoes breath so my feet aren’t drenched in sweat The BAD Aluminum toe so they won’t pass a metal detector Climbing ladders is a little tuff unlike boots with a solid shank the shoes bend a bit OVERALL very good safety shoe very happy with

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On the plus side, these are great looking shoes and are extremely light (I weighed them...13 oz. each). The toe box is very roomy, no squinched up toes or rubbing. I always buy a half size larger than usual in safety toed shoes, and these are slightly on the large side, so you might get by with your regular size due to the wide toe box. On the down side, they may be the most uncomfortable shoes Ive ever worn, extremely stiff, like walking around with a 2 X 4 strapped to each foot, and after six weeks of wear, theyre still just as stiff as they were on the first day. The insoles were pretty much used up after about two weeks, which made for an even harsher feel. Ive put some thick foam insoles in, and that helps a little, but theyre still very uncomfortable. (I wear them for about eleven hours a day, six days a week.) If they felt as good as they look, these shoes would be a winner, but they dont, so I wont make this mistake again. Ill try to hang with them for another few months and then go back to the Reebok Mens Sublite RB4005. Theyre the most comfortable safety shoes Ive ever worn, a little pricier but well worth the difference, and I should have stayed with them.

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These are good shoes so far but several flaws really downgrade them for me. The laces are made of nylon or other slick surface material that come untied constantly. In my job I walk a lot and these laces come untied every three to twelve minutes. Having to stop and tie my shoes fifty times or more a day is madding. You would think at this point in shoe technology laces that provide enough friction to not come untied four times a hour would be a solved problem but Reebok shoe lace technology seems to be stuck in the 1950s. Yes I did try double tying but they still came loose. These laces are incapable of holding a knot. I have thrown away the laces that came with these shoes and bought regular cloth laces that I might have to retie once a day every other day at work. For me this easily fixed problem is worth one and a half stars off. Another half star is deducted for the insoles. They are thin and have a gimmicky bumps on them that together do nothing. I bought some aftermarket insoles that work much better. Overall buying better laces and insoles makes these shoes great but both of these problems should not have needed fixing in the first place.

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I bought these in a size 11 2E (wide) while on break at work because the shoes I was wearing at the time (and have been wearing) give me blisters and hurt my toes. I paid $18 for 1 day shipping; while they arrived on time, they are much too narrow fitting for my feet (especially in the arch and toe box areas). Length wise, they are only slightly less roomy than I would expect a typical size 11 to be. I expect I will have to return them. If your feet are wide, I would look elsewhere. If your feet arent wide, go for it. -I wanted to take a picture of the insoles to show how incredibly narrow they are; but, the shoes are already back in their box and tidied up...suffice it to say, they are comically slim. Also, the memory foam insole is removable (a different review says that they are glued in). My pair only has an adhesive strip near the heel. Removing the insert was nearly effortless and putting it back was only slightly more difficult.

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