This boot is the reason I buy $250 Frye's.  There is something for purchasing a quality item.  This boot is not it.  Flimsy, poor quality, the "velvet" was hard and had crease marks where it was folded in places.  This boot did not look as if it would hold up well.  The red was a candy apple red-very bright.  The style was victorian and attractive.  I just wished that maybe, MAYBE, I could get away with a $35 shoe.  Not today.  Sent them back.