Customer Reviews New Balance Fresh Foam Arishi v3

This is a great-looking shoe. Unfortunately, it was riding up on my heel and in the limited time I tried them on and stood I felt a blister coming on. I will be returning.

I wear a size 9 shoe. This sneaker was a little short but overall I liked the sneaker. I ordered a 9 1/2 and that was the correct length but the inner lining was very uncomfortable. It seemed to be narrower than normal and uncomfortable.. I sent it back as well. Too bad.

They are uncomfortable in the toe bed !

Too small even I the half size larger than my previous new balance sneakers

These are comfortable for wearing around the house. Little to no arch support so not good for my 12 hour shits as a nurse.

Had purchased this same shoe in different color and it was 1/2 inch longer and perfect fit so re-ordered this one 1/2 size larger and it is perfect. So it seems the black shoe just runs smaller.

Fit was not good- I was hoping for a wider toebox since my usual shoes (Brooks) seem to be making narrower toe boxes. In a wide, the whole fit was very sloppy (foot slide around it in). BUT if it had fit, I would not have kept it. The arch support is non-existent in this shoe as best I can tell. I pay twice as much for my Brooks shoes but the quality is twice as good so there is a moral to this story, I guess. The padding for the entire foot was unimpressive (I think this fresh foam stuff is a great marketing tool but ???

I can't believe that my toe hit the front even when I ordered a full size up. I wish they'd fit though, it was otherwise an ok shoe. Very light weight, I think I need to look for more of a shoe-type shoe that has more protection than just netting all over. Plus I need that extra lace hole so I can prevent my feet from sliding to the front. Even if these shoes HAD that, the shoelaces wouldn't go that far, as they're even now too short to double tie. Other than that, they were great looking - made my feet look pretty small. Slight rant about the state of all sport shoes these days, what's with the sizing. So many didn't fit that I went to a real store (pre covid) and measured my feet. Sure enough, I'm still a 9 to 9.5 fit. These shoes were 10.5 and still too short. Ugh.

Very light shoe with no support.

The size is very inconsistent, which is a disappointment. I bought three pairs total; same size (6) and same width (wide). The first one was perfect except the insole was uneven (one was noticeably thinner than the other) so I returned that one. Liking the shoe/style, I decide to purchase two more pairs and each pair was a different color. The first pair (black/peach soda metallic) was a cute style, but my toes were to the tip of the front of the shoe. The second pair (thunder/gunmetal) was extremely loose in the toe box. Also, the material seemed different. I'm also returning to New Balance after having used a pair of Brooks running shoes this past year which had a lot of padding and it's a little bit of an adjustment to the New Balance minimal padding.

Wanted basic black sneaker. Already own fresh foam Zantes (extremely comfortable) and thought this would be very similar. Nope. Doesn’t feel cushy at all. Almost felt like they were pronating my average feet in the wrong direction. Donated these.

Normally wear 9 or 9.5. A 9.5 felt too small, so ordered a 10, which unfortunately was too big. Had similar issue with Asics brand. I will probably need to stick with Addidas or Nike - better fit for my foot

Not very comfortable- could feel every bump in the floor while walking in them.

I ordered a wide but what came was narrow even for a shoe that wasn’t wide to begin with