I took them on a trip with me to Europe a few days after receiving them. ? (Maybe they ?expected? they?d be too big. Picture on Amazon looked black, but showed up as navy. They turned out to be my favorite shoes to wear. Upon opening this product I was just thrilled ?? by first of all what I saw! I wore them around the house to break them in and my feet didn?t get sore at all! & found it great right from the start of listening. From my experience with adult rain boots, if you dont want your boots to split after a year or so, you need to get boots that fit you quite snugly. I wore these all day today and I felt great all day. This is one long parody of both the original book and film, and a lot of the tropes in the genre in general.