Veja Rio Branco II

For about 1 in 10 feet. If you follow Veja's size guidance online, the Rio Branco II fits true to size for 10% of feet. Here, true to size means the size Veja's online guidance gives you is less than a full size away from the size that fits best, with enough toe room and enough forefoot volume.

Veja's product page for the Rio Branco II says the style runs small and tells shoppers to order one size larger than their usual size. In our fittings, that advice gave most feet a size that was too big. Veja's size guide itself lists a foot length for every size in centimeters and inches, but the Rio Branco II comes in one width, so a different size is the only way to change the forefoot volume.

Here is where every foot landed in the Rio Branco II when we followed Veja's size chart and ordered one size larger, as Veja recommends.

Share of 16,802 feet. Each foot is counted once.

• Right size from the size chart: 10% of feet got a size that fit both their foot length and their forefoot volume. Veja's size guidance, including the size up, worked for this group in the Rio Branco II.
• Sized up for more forefoot volume: For 27% of feet, the Rio Branco II had too little forefoot volume even at the larger size Veja's guidance gave. The Rio Branco II has no wide version, so going up another size was the only way to get more forefoot volume, and the bigger size also adds length in front of the toes.
• Sized up for toe room only: No feet landed here: 0 of 16,802. With the size up, Veja's guidance leaves every foot enough room in front of the toes in the Rio Branco II.
• Sized down for less forefoot volume: For 63% of feet, the Rio Branco II was too big at the size Veja's guidance gave. For 4,672 of these feet, the forefoot volume was too much. For the other 5,850, the extra size alone made the Rio Branco II a full size too long. The Rio Branco II has no narrow version, so a smaller size was the only fix.

We measured the standard width of the Rio Branco II and virtually fitted 16,802 real feet from our earlier in-store 3D foot scanners. Out of 17,311 foot scans, those 16,802 feet fall in the size range of the Rio Branco II (EU 36 to 48). For every foot, we followed Veja's size guidance online: the length chart, including Veja's note to order one size larger, in the standard width. A difference of a full size or more between Veja's size and the size that fits best counts as a miss. These numbers show how the Rio Branco II fits a large group of feet, not how the shoe feels on your feet.