text: Ended up returning these, disappointed. I LOVED the old Lavers, having gone through four pairs over the years (Blue, Green, Blue again, and Black). I was very much looking forward to rocking the updated 2015 model in Black. The Good: They look just as nice in person as they do in the Amazon pics. The black on black is so slick looking. The Bad: They run a half size large (all my previous Lavers fit me perfectly in 8.5, but I would definitely need to go down to an 8 in order to get these to fit me). Also, as many many people have mentioned in other reviews, these are much heavier, which is a problem if you are buying them for anything other than bumming around the city, like say, PLAYING TENNIS, which is something someone buying a shoe named after ROD LAVER might occasionally want to do. Short version: These are about a half size large, and they are heavy as heck. Excellent choice if you're just looking for style, though.  Update: I went ahead and put them on my kitchen scale out of curiosity. See the pictures. The 2015 version has gained a whopping 146 grams (or 5.2 oz)! Each shoe weighs over a pound! It's really bizarre that they'd change the iconic Laver so radically like this.