I purchased these as a gift for Christmas. I thought they were hilarious! They go up to your mid knee (I suppose it will depend on how tall you are as well). They're warm and will get compliments and comments from everyone who sees them! Everyone kept commenting on them and taking pictures. The one and only drawback was when my cousin took the socks off the cape tore. So, it would seem that they would just tear off in the washer. I suppose you could hand wash them, but really who has time for that? One great suggestion was to tear the capes off and put velcro on them so you could take them off with ease and not ruin the capes. One word of advice, if you buy these the capes WILL come off, so be prepared for that.