Let me save you the time and money I wasted.
Over the past 2 summers, I've tried $160 Birkenstocks that looked great but left my arches screaming, $120 orthopedic slides that were ugly and still didn't help, $95 leather sandals my sister swore by, those $40 Amazon pairs with thousands of fake reviews, some $85 "orthopedic" sandals my podiatrist suggested, and finally, these sandals that kept showing up in my feed.
Five failures. One winner. Here's the difference. And what I wish someone had told me before I spent $500.