text: I love the design of these shoes.  I knew they needed to be mine as soon as I saw them.<br />The only thing keeping me from giving 5 stars is the fringe.  Some of these leather strands are super frail.  A few of mine were loosely knotted and uneven (dragging the floor even), so I tugged gently on them to tighten the knots so that they would lie flatter to the side of the bootie and be straighter, but some of them BROKE off.  And one was already snapped off when I took them out of the box.  Because there are other strands it SORT OF hides this and I didn't want to deal with sending them back, so I'm just dealing with it.<br />Another plus is that these are really comfy considering they aren't support shoes :)  I can wear them to my office job all day without them hurting me.