text: These shoes are distinctively shiny GOLD with red straps across the top of your foot with a black base.  The gold part does have black flecks in it.  The description doesn't mention this at all. That said, I took a look at first and said &#34;eeew, these are not black&#34;... I tried them on and the colors actually weirdly work together and as a bonus seem very comfortable. Keeping.