Cai Cramer is a contributing shopping writer at PEOPLE, covering the best and buzziest products across the beauty, fashion, health, and lifestyle spaces. For this story, Cai spoke with a fashion influencer and consulted real-world testing results from testers with a variety of foot shapes and needs. Cai also used personal insights from her 10 years of experience wearing Birkenstock shoes to inform this story.

If given the choice between high heels and Birkenstocks, we’d choose Birkenstocks every time — and so did Margot Robbie while filming Barbie . The cork-soled shoes are comfortable and cute, and they come in a variety of colors and materials to go with nearly any outfit and occasion.

Whether you’re on the hunt for your first pair of "Birks" or you're already a seasoned Arizona

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