If you're on your feet all day long, you know the misery of those tight shoes: tight, pinching our toes. My toes used to feel completely crushed wearing my normal shoes. "Feet feeling that they are scrunched up in the toes area," one woman wrote on our survey. "Mostly heel pain and soreness after a 8 hour shift," wrote another.

The front is wide, so the toes spread the way they do barefoot. "I rated you 5 because I love them I wear them everyday I stand for 8 hours at work," one woman wrote on her feedback form. Another: "I am on my feet a lot at work on concrete floors."

Nobody tells you how much of the afternoon ache is the shoe. A raised heel tips you forward, and 8 hours of that goes straight into the knees and the lower back. By the end of a shift I was leaning on the counter, the cart, the wall.

The sole is flat and flexible, so I stand the way my body was built to stand. The notes women send are never about cushioning or arch support. They say things like, I walked the whole farmer's market this week. I stood through my daughter's wedding. One wrote: "My balance is steadier, and I can be on my feet for longer periods of time."

I had tried the sensible shoes, the beige, thick ones that announce your age from across the parking lot. "I'm hoping to have a pair of comfortable and fashionable shoes for work," one woman wrote on our survey. A nurse in the reviews was fresh off work when she tried them on for the first time and wrote, in capitals, that these shoes are more comfortable than Crocs.

They look like a nice pair of knit flats. One woman said it for all of us: "My cloudwalk shoes are now part of my outfit of the day, every day, whether I'm going to work, running errands, walking on the walking pad, or just hanging around my house."

A 6 a.m. shift does not leave time to sit down and lace anything. These go on like a sock, standing, no bending, and I am out the door. After a week of floors, they go in the washing machine with the scrubs and come out like new.

A retired ICU nurse wrote: "I wish I had these then. My feet feel so good when I wear them." Another woman bought 2 pairs and gave one to her daughter: "She is a nurse and a comfortable shoe makes her days so much better." And about the old pair, one of us wrote: "Sketchers slip ons. They're ok, but my lower body aches when I wear them for a long time."

2 pairs, 2 colors: one for the shift and one for after, so the work pair gets a day to breathe. Every order comes with easy returns, no questions asked.

"My feet hurt at the end of my shift," one woman wrote before ordering. "They do what you say." They do. If your size is showing in stock, order before Monday's shift.