Customer Reviews Onitsuka Tiger Tai Chi™

First off, let me say Zappos customer service is great! If I could rate that, I'd give them six stars. Also, I love the design of these shoes. I wanted minimalist shoes for everyday use: very light, thin soled, and flexible. These fit the bill. They are also very comfortable. The soles may be thin, but they have just enough cushion. To me, the shoes feel great. I think the design looks good, too. However, I am only giving these shoes 3 stars because the toes wrinkle. Between sizing issues and delivery errors. I ended up going through three pairs. And all wrinkled in the toe area (some worse than others). The left shoes wrinkle a little by the left toe. The right shoe has two large creases over the middle toe. I believe this to be a defect. Don't know if they all have the problem or just some "batches". I kept a pair hoping they'd get better with wear. The wrinkling gets worse. Unfortunately, I can just wear them as gym shoes now.

Not what he expected - I ordered the Onitsuka Tiger for my husband, liked the look, seemed comfortable. I thought they'd work for outdoor Tai Chi, but he thought the sticky tread would make it difficult to do the smooth sliding moves of Tai Chi. He wanted waterproof, but will use indoor, traditional Tai Chi shoes with smooth soles instead.