Sansha Men's T-Bojango Tap Shoe

I am an adult male that wears a 10 1/2 - 11 size street shoe. I have tried both Capezio and Bloch tap shoes in my appropriate size, but they were all too narrow and the toe-box is very pointy (that is, it squeezed my toes - uncomfotable). After reading another shopper's review, I took the plunge and bought the size 18 (12 M US Men's) shoe. If fits much better than the other brands and allows my toes to move without constriction. I like the styling, and it has a higher sole & heal which has actually made dancing in them easier. I just started back to tap class after some toe surgeries in 2013, and so far the fit is good and I have not experienced any of the issues that I had with other brands.Try them!

I've been taking tap lessons for 21 years (and I look like I started last Thursday). Over the course of those 21 years I've gone through about 3 or 4 pairs of tap shoes. In EVERY case my struggle has been to find a pair of shoes that fit properly. I have usually purchased shoes by Capezio but it seems like even if I get shoes that are several sizes larger than my U.S. shoe size, they are still too small and cramp my feet, although in every other way they were just fine. I finally decided to try these Sansha shoes and right away as I was ordering I couldn't help but notice that they had plenty of incremental sizes in the smaller size shoes that the younger males would wear, but the sizes took big leaps once you got into the sizes that a full grown 200 pound man might wear.Based on the charts that were posted with the shoes it looked like the size closest to my shoe size would be a bit too big, and that is the case. I wear a size 11 street shoe and I seem to remember, though I could be wrong, that the shoes I bought were the ones closest to what I thought I needed. So they are a little big, but that's not as big a deal as having to try to go on stage in shoes that are way too tight. I can work with these shoes. And these Sansha shoes are very well made, though they feel significantly heavier than the Capezio shoes I'm used to.Final note: my choreographer wears a pair of shoes that look almost identical to the Sansha in both outward appearance and construction and she paid over $150 for her shoes. That makes these Sansha shoes something of a bargain.I would have given these shoes five stars if they had been able to somehow, magically, make me dance like Fred Astaire. Since it turns out that I still have to do the dancing myself without any magical help, I decided that four stars were right.

Back tap heel completely fell off in the middle of the class I was teaching. One of my students has the same pair and had the exact same thing happen. I only teach 2 days a week, 3 hours a day and this happened only 3 months after purchasing them, brand new. Do not buy these.

Why don't they have a table with foot length and width, so that we can figure out which size shoe we should order ?Why do I have to think of how they should sell their shoes, so that we get the right size?Why, if they are selling them in the United States of America, don't they have the identical sizes that all American shoes have ?Bottom line is: I wear size 10.5 American... I ordered size 13 Sansha, and they are TWO INCHES shorter than my street shoes !There is no way I can perhaps stretch them so that they fit, these will go into the garbage because I can't return them. It cost me almost as much as the shoe ($75) to get them shipped to where I live so I can't send them back.But this is entirely Sansha's fault. It doesn't make sense that they don't have a shoe chart so that we can simply measure our foot, in inches or centimeters, and get the size shoe that we should get.One star, and I am very sad that I don't have a pair of tap dance shoes. Maybe I will buy a pair of shoes that fit me, and get the metal plates screwed on to the pair of shoe. But in that case, why don't they just sell the metal plates, and we fix them on to the shoe of our choice ?

As the heading indicates, I am a beginner not a professional. I have always bought the best tools available for any job or project I contemplate doing. I have purchased Capezio shoes, where you have to install your own taps and although they are good shoes, these work much better for me.

I went by the recommended shoe size on the site, because I read that it's not the same as regular street size. I bought them as a gift for Christmas. They were the only shoe that came in a larger size--my son wear an 11 1/2 I bought a size 13 tap shoe.They fit perfect according to my son. Very well made we are both satisfied. They are worth the price.

This is a very good shoe for the price. I wouldn't perform in them, but they're good for teaching, and they'll save my better, more expensive shoes for performance.

great tap shoes for beginners...