I would have preferred a darker colour but these were on sale, so as long as they had a dark sole I guess they'll do. I find I have to order boys' sizes for myself because for some reason they fit better with less slippage as in, shoe manufacturers expect boys' shoes to stay on their feet as they walk and do things around town. Womens' are expected to, what, slip up and down and slide off if we have to run around or walk fast or do anything at all? I might have to start wearing these in brown or black so they'll look less like sneakers at first glance and just pass for some kind of "sandal" or something, I'm not sure yet. I need closed-toe "sandals" by now because thanks to an earlier purchase this year, well, that and some broken-up lame excuse for "pavement" I was trying to walk across, I fell and sprained my big toe and have since had the big toenail peel halfway off.My biggest problem with these shoes was that UPS had their usual hard time finding my address - and it's only been recently, as if they're recently hired idiots at this location and I've had to have Amazon replace a couple of things that have been delivered to some other address entirely, on the other side of town, not even to another street bearing the same name as mine (when the city has N, S, E, and W directionals on every street, that would be understandable, as in, 1625 Gold Ave SW instead of 1625 Gold Ave SE, sort of thing, but even those are in different ZIP codes!) - it's not Amazon's fault that apparently both the USPS and UPS around here seem to hire people who can't read. Oh well. I'm going overseas soon, and overseas mail delivery *should* be better. By the time the box reached me, UPS' second delivery attempt according to the package tracking, it was pretty busted up as if they'd thrown it around the truck or something. The product inside was OK, as it's only shoes.