I. Sizing

• MEN'S shoes and boots (Apollo Determination Falcon Fer Raptor Zetone) use dress and casual sizing.
  • If you have dress shoes, then order the same size as usual.
  • If you mainly wear athletic shoes, order one size down.
  • If you have narrow feet, then order a size down.
• For the ARES, if you plan to wear thicker winter socks with them, order one size up.
• For the ARTEMIS, we recommend ordering your normal size, or one size bigger.

 

If your personal shoe collection has varying sizes, below is a conversion chart based on your foot length, and a video on how to measure.

 

II. Let Us Help with Sizing

Please reach out to us for help with sizing via chat box. Here are the data points we are looking for: What Size? – Carets

 

III. Fit & Feel

This image shows roughly how/where your feet should sit inside a pair of Carets, at right. 

At left is a typical dress shoe, same size and same Wide width. You can see that it is still 1 or 2 cm longer than ours. Most sleeker dress shoes have a fair amount of unoccupied space in the front. We took advantage of that and used it to give you a wide toe box without looking like it. Dress shoes get even longer if we start looking at chisel-toe and pointy-toe styles. But even though these conventional dress shoes are longer, you still feel cramped because of the heel lift and the fact that their shoes are widest at the ball of the foot. Ours are widest at the toes, as a foot naturally is.

If the widest part of your feet (i.e. your toes) occupies the widest part of our shoes, then you are wearing the right size.

GROUNDFEEL: In total, there is 9 mm of material between your foot and the floor. Our flexible, durable, polyurethane outsole is 4.5 mm thick. Above that, is some of the upper leather, wrapped under. Above that, is a thin layer of Poron performance cushioning. Finally, we have a layer of smooth full-grain leather upon which your foot nestles.

In the end, what matters most is that you are happy with your shoes! We will gladly take them back (365-day free returns and exchanges, click for details) and I am honored that you gave us a shot.