Four of the five shoes can be placed on a dolls feet without removing the feet. Only the black pumps need you to pull the feet out to place those in. A little sad there isn't an extra pair of joints for the feet for those in particular. Thought I was about to break off the ones I had just to reinsert them into the pump shoes. Good Smile loves to add in extra joints for the necks for faceplates, they need to start that habit for the shoes.