Customer Reviews Teva Hurricane Xlt2

I received these and discovered that even though I ordered the exact same size as earlier this year, they were in fact smaller. I did a side by side comparison and you could see the difference in length. I ordered a size 12. I'll have to request a half size larger even though I've never worn a 12.5.

So I am not the kind of person that wears sandals... but needed something for the lake... and they worked great. But would never wear them in the city even if these are the best looking ones by a mile

I've really every owned Teva sandals in my life. Yeah, I should branch out and try different things, but the pair I bought way back when Grunge ruled the music world were just plain awesome. You're going to laugh, but I still have them as beat up as they are. The soles eventually broke down and came apart, but that's nothing a trip to the local big box home improvement store couldn't fix. I used Gorilla Glue by the way. The main reason I gravitated towards Teva was their design. At the time, there were very few sandal options that had straps across the toes instead of the flip flop design. I could never, ever wear the flip flop design with that tang jabbing between my toes. Nope. Never, ever. That original pair was robust, the straps were long enough, the foot base wide enough. They were just plain good. Fast forward a few years and I could see the quality declining. The Hurricane model was OK, but their, what I call base model, is just plain garbage. Many of the issues I have with the Hurricanes can be said for the base model, but I'll just focus on the Hurricanes. The 2 main issues I have with the current design is the shortness of the straps and the width of the foot base. Yeah, I have a wide foot and am a larger dude, so there's more flesh to cross over, but the fact that the strap across the top of the foot has to be drawn so far back that the hook portion of the Velcro is against the plastic guide is disconcerting. That means I'm limited to that width, as the strap won't pass through the plastic guide with the sewn in Velcro portion. I understand that some folks have the same size (11) foot but a smaller frame, but another 1/2" to 1" longer straps would work wonders. It's also not likely to make it such that folks with smaller feet are walking on the straps (because they have to be drawn over to tighten). The second issue I have also concerns the width of the product. The foot base seems to be shrinking over the years in both the distance between the straps lines coming from the sandal as well as the overall product width. The sandals I have purchased in recent years fail much more quickly. The soles blow apart quite rapidly, and my perception is a decline in quality material being used. All in the name of cost cutting, I suppose. I'm stuck with this new purchase for a while, but I need to find a store with a wide variety of sandals to evaluate.

Returning these because with my higher arches, I can't detect any significant arch support with this shoe. I like the style and color at lot. I'm a woman with a wider foot at the ball of my foot so I have better success with men's size 7's for women's size 9 to 9.5.

Returned because the 10 felt and looked like an 11.