text: These shoes were beautiful.  The smell other reviewers talked about was very faint and fairly unnoticeable. I wanted to love them but they just fit strange.  I ordered my true size 9 and the length fit well but they were just kind of stretched out feeling.  The ankle part was very loose even tightened on the tightest setting. You would think I was very petite by my review but I am a larger boned girl and have been called anything but dainty and frail.  Hah.  That's why I was disappointed when I had to return them.