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Hi, I'm considering buying my first pair of Vibram FiveFingers shoes. My big toe is longer than the rest of my toes (this applies to both feet). The distance between the big toe and index toe is 15/32 inch (0,47 inch) or 12 millimeters . I attach an image of my foot at the end. Could this be a problem considering the fitting of the shoes to my feet? Or will I still be able to wear, function and benefit from a five fingers shoe? PS. I've done some research and found this site: http://www.myfivefingers.com/fivefingers-so-many-choices-whats-best-for-me/ in the comments section: "...Also, some people can’t wear them, because one toes is significantly more prominent the big toe..." I also found this guy with long second toe and hammerhead toe wearing FFs: But it's hard to draw any conclusion from this video because the guy hadn't at the time used them for so long. Also in my case it is the big toe that is prominent. I have emailed Vibram about this, when I recieve an answer I will post it here. In any case, I appreciate any help from the forum on this. Cheers, Dennis

A bit of background to why I'm asking the question: I've had problems with the arches of my feet for most of my life and especially the left main arch - Extremely sharp pains I now believe from too much collapse. In the past year or so I found out my left leg is the longer leg. I injured my big toe of the left foot several times around 3 years ago which led to the end joint not moving. I've managed to get a little passive movement back and lately a tiny bit of active movement. I hadn't had that arch pain for about 10 years but it came back a couple of weeks ago. The compensations were huge as I guess my CNS really didn't want it to happen again? I started bearing weight on the outside of my foot and got outside knee pain. I just couldn't walk naturally at all, all the memories of over 10 years ago came flooding back. What I believe contributed to the pain returning was I bought some new minimal shoes and unlike the rest of my shoes I forgot to put a 4mm heel raise in the right shoe. I had been wearing these a lot and had been on my feet more than usual. Also I had been trying to gain some flexibility in the dorsiflexion of my toes so perhaps overstretching my weak arch? So getting onto the subject question, I noticed my left foot is a lot weaker at 'scrunching' the toes/pushing through the toes. When walking, should I be pushing through the big toe (or any toes)? At the moment I don't with either foot, my toes are pretty much passengers that just get walked on. The ball of the foot behind my big toe is baby soft on each foot and looks like I've never walked on them, wheres behind the middle 3 has a fair bit of callusing - Collapsed front arch I guess. I feel that if I were to more actively use my toes / big toe I'd actually bear some weight behind the big toe and not so much weight through the ball of the foot behind the middle 3.