Manning Whittier says:

A handsome shoe but too tight across the top of the foot. My husband has a high instep. Because the stitching was finite on either side of his foot, right there at the corners, and not able to be loosened by untying and retying the leather cord on the vamp, it proved too tight. Perhaps it would have “stretched’ but for that price one needs to have the shoe by a “shoe-in” right from the gitgo. Great looking shoe, though. And he did say aside from its being too tight that walking in them was as comfortable as “air”. They were…