I am always looking for shoes that aren't run of the mill. These are definitely different! I got the black/white. They are more black and cream, not black and true white. The red peeking out by the toe is really cute. It is an orangy red, not a plum/bluish red. I did wear these with a red dress that did not match perfectly, and got tons on compliments on them. I guess no one noticed that the reds weren't exactly the same. The flower covers most of your toes, so if you are worried about maybe having a less than perfect pedicure, don't. The flower is speckled with a gray-ish and gold tint with a silvery sparkly jewel in the middle. I wore silver jewelry thinking the speckles were silver, but in the sun I noticed the gold. No biggie. The heel is sort of clear plastic with a silver metal rod through it, fading to black near the top. I felt the sizing was true to length and width.

They are marked with European sizing on the bottom, but you order by US sizing here. I wear a 9.5 which usually works out for me as a 40 in Casadei, Bettye Muller, and Manolo Blahniks (even though they SAY it should be 39.5) and these are marked 40.5, I don't know why. They fit though. I don't have tons of European-sized shoes...maybe 10 pairs, so maybe the sizing varies from maker to maker more than I think.

I don't often wear platforms, just regular heels, but figured I would buy a pair or two since they are popular now. The platform DOES make it so your foot is more flat rather than bent up in a high heel. However, the shoe doesn't flex much, so you still don't walk perfectly naturally. My heel even slipped out a twice when I was walking quickly, forgetting that my shoe wasn't bending with my foot. That was over the course of 5 hours, so it wasn't too annoying. To me, they were easier to stand in than a similar heel in non-platform form, but less easy to walk in due to the stiffness of them. On carpet, no problem. On less than perfect pavement or bricks, you might stomp around a little. I don't think it is due to the man-made sole (versus a leather one), but rather the nature of this platform style (you can tell from the photos that the platform tapers up past the middle.)

Overall, I like them very much. Not as comfy as I hoped due to the non-bending aspect of them, but still very cute. I am thinking about the pink/blue ones and the purple pink ones too, but I might wait for the price to go down a little to get another pair.