Customer Reviews BILLY Footwear Kids Goat (Little Kid/Big Kid)

Love that we have a tennis shoes style shoe for our girl. But I'm worried the laces are going to break and we just got the shoes about two weeks ago. The laces are thin compared to the laces that are on the high top shoes.

We purchased these for my son to wear with UCBL inserts. Because the insert causes his heel to sit high, the back of these shoes are too low to keep his foot from sliding out while walking.

Work great Comfortable for my daughter.. I do need to remove the soles to fit better .. I wish the Extra Wide fit had more styles.. however very happy

Purchased these, only worn three times and the tab for the zipper broke off. I cannot zip them without the tab, because the string is too short, and there is no way to "fix" them. All my other shoes I love, and they do not have this new "tab" style. If Billy Footwear is going to go with the tab feature, they will need to perfect the sturdiness of the tab.

Daughter was excited to get these shoes that are a much cuter style and brighter colors compared to the high tops. However the zippers have much smaller teeth than the high top zippers, and they zip around a smaller portion of the shoe (the track is near the laces instead of out by the edges). Together the tighter turns and smaller little fragile plastic teeth made for fussy zippers. The zippers don't want to go around turns and once even skipped teeth this the first trial zips with no foot in the shoe! Then when my daughter tried to put them on they were just as frustrating, requiring wiggles and pulls of encouragement around the corners. Nothing like the one smooth ziiiiiip of the high tops, which she does in a flash. A fail at accessibility/independence for my daughter. Plus since the zippers are fussy and feel cheap, I do not trust they will last long. Disappointing as the zippers are the defining feature of Billy shoes. So the cute, AFO friendly, bright and cheery rainbow shoes were sadly sent back. Would love to have a pair of these shoes with a strong, smooth, quality zipper.

love the shoes, but toe box not wide enough so had to send back. wish more of the Billy shoes had soles like this one

I ordered these for my son with AFOs based on what his orthotics tech said regarding the re-enforced toe and being designed for people with orthotics. But unfortunately the bottom material started to peel off after one day. My son walks on his tippy toes and drags his feet sometimes. Not ready for tippy toe walkers yet. So once a hole starts, the shoe's generally don't last very long. These are super nice shoes and I would worth the money but for normal gait walkers. I did email Billy with my feedback and the customer service is working with me which is

Not as supportive as my daughter needs, worn 5 times and the tongue is already starting to fray

Falsely advertised as AFO friendly. If these were the typical Billy footwear opening, they would be great but this smaller opening does not allow for much wiggle room with fitting. If the shoe was wider, it might make a difference. In the current form there is a risk of hot spots developing where the shoe rubs too much from the lack of space in the toe box.

I was excited to purchase these because although they are short wrap, they said AFO friendly. I had purchased a short wrap pair of shoes before and had no success and unfortunately, despite being "AFO friendly", these were no different. I could not get them zipped even if I took out the laces completely. Please start offering these in the regular wrap and I will purchase them right away.

Love the shoe, but it was not wide enough to accommodate the braces.

Even though these were as wide as I could buy them, they still did not accommodate my grand daughter's braces.

I love the concept and design but this shoe does not fit with an AFO.

This is my first time ordering from this site, my daughter just got her SMOs so I decided to look on here. Unfortunately the SMOs did not fit inside the shoe, it was extremely snug. I even went up a size from her regular size and did extra wide and still did not fit. I'm going to hopefully exchange them for high tops.

I was excited to see a show actually labeled as AFO friendly. No. We couldn't fit the Velcro of the AFO into the covered toe area of the shoe. Also, these are ridiculously expensive, way to rip off special needs families. Also, the zipper seemed like it was going to break immediately. It wasn't as strong as the original Billy shoes.

The shoe seems well made but does not accommodate a foot with an AFO. The top of the shoe is not big enough to reach over the afo and so the zipper sides are 2-3 inches from meeting. We tried two different shoes over a 6 month period. We ordered extra wide the second time but the total depth of the show does NOT allow for zipping