Vivobarefoot Primus Lite III, Womens Vegan Light Breathable Shoe with Barefoot Sole

True to size,comfortable to wear but not for too long. Plastic feel so not too comfortable for too long

These are my go to gym shoes. The fit is perfect with plenty of room for my toes. They have lasted over a year and look like they have more life. They’re comfortable and took no time to break in.

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I really wanted these shoes. The style is probably the nicest I've seen for barefoot shoes. But they need to update the sizing. I'm a short guy, 5'4" and I have small feet, I first tried the smallest size in the men's and it was too big, so I ordered the correct size in women's. But they make the womens shoes narrower (I even emailed the vivobarefoot site to ask that and they confirmed the womens are narrower) and the ones I ordered are the perfect fit in length but are so tight around the front of my foot. Like tighter than my regular shoes, and the whole point of these shoes is to avoid that and be foot shaped. I honestly don't even think they'd be wide enough for a womans foot either. They need to start making all the sizes in the same width or offer a wider version.

Vivo has a distinctive look, and after seeing someone wearing them locally (what are the odds?!), I decided to give them a try. I used the same cm length I’ve used for my many other barefoot shoes to pick the size from their chart. They were huge. Next I went with Amazon’s recommendation based on millions of purchases 😉 and they were still too big. The lightweight uppers and the sole flexibility were nice, but they were just too long. My foot looked odd - I don’t know if a smaller size would have looked normal but I had tired of the trial and error. Maybe I’ll go to the barefoot shoe event in Denver. Maybe I’ll find some Vivos to try on. For now, I’m Vivo-less in Florida.

I’ve had knee problems since I was 17 (ligament tears). In desperate need to heal my knee long term, I found out about the barefoot lifestyle when I was like 25. I didn’t start wearing barefoot shoes until 1 year ago. Doing knee over toes exercises and not Feeling tortured every time I put footwear on has been doing me a solid. These shoes in particular are wonderful. They’re light, comfortable, great for the gym or a run. Although if you have soft feet you might want you might want to put a padded sole in there for more cushion. Personally I love the barefoot feel. These are my first vivos and I’m glad I finally got them. If you like your feet feeling free I highly recommend these.

If you have wide feet, make sure to go a size up vs. down. I normally wear an 8/12 and I wear the 9 in these. I love these sneakers and am hoping they will help correct the alignment of my toes. I have an all black pair that I wear to work but would like to find some dressier barefoot shoes for work. I can wear these with the correct toes contraption with no problem as well. I am on my 4th pair of these sneakers. I love them so much that I don't mind having to purchase a replacement twice a year. What I recently noticed is that I haven't lost my balance since wearing these. That is being sneakers with a regular sole would cause my ankle to roll due to my overpronation. I pray they will continue to make this style of their sneaker and they stay in business forever. I can't imagine going back to regular sneakers. Also, they haven't corrected the alignment of my toes but they also aren't getting any worse. I was told that only surgery will correct the problem since the bones at the top of my foot are out of alignment causing the issue with my toes.

I’m pretty upset with this shoe brand because not even a year into wearing them the soles are so worn down, holes are developing in the mesh by the toes, and the end of a lace is severely frayed where an aglet should be. For the price they should be more sturdy. Last I checked, Vivobarefoot’s website will take them and renew them for you but it costs around $120 to do so. What a joke. That’s the price of a new pair of shoes and defeats their whole point. Only reason I did not give it a 1 star is because the shoes were great up until month 10 when they started wearing down. And I only wore these a few times a week for my runs.