Originally Posted by wahooflyer
I'd try thinner-soled sneakers if I were you. From the picture, those shoes look too close to 1" to pass muster at most of the carnival/borderline carnival airports like IAD, DCA, and BWI (though TSA at BWI's always a crapshoot when it comes to shoes).
Yeah your gonna have to de-shoe, my sneakers look thinner than that and I have to take them off each time. One inch is really dependent on the screener making a judgement call of what is one inch and the mere design of those make them look chunkier than an inch IMHO.