text: Nice shoes but the mesh appears purple in normal daylight, and almost a bright purple in sunlight. I have only had them  a couple months, do not wear them except to work (indoors), and have not gotten them wet. It may say somewhere in the literature online that they are purple and black, but they do not look entirely black as they appear in the images on Amazon's website. This is probably why they were so deeply discounted when I purchased them. Otherwise, if you can get past the color (I live near Baltimore so the locals think these are raven fan shoes) then Salomon is a great brand of strong shoes.<br />Tread is a solid pattern and the shoes are much more stable than typical running shoes that I had been wearing around town as a daily shoe.