I completely love these sandals and am so happy that they have added the colors to the straps (the plain black was my first pair). I am a swim coach and besides wearing tennis shoes, which really sucks when they get wet, not many shoes offer much traction on a slippery, wet deck. But I have not slipped in these. Even yesterday, at a meet with a tiled deck (don't ask me why they would design a deck like that), I didn't slip once. The only other time I have results like that is when I go bare foot and with a 6+ hour meet, that's no fun. I also love Amazon's prices and the shipping was way faster than what they had told me it would take, like 2 days as opposed to 7. Also, seeing as it is February, it's hard to find sandals at a store right now so it makes it so much easier to get exactly what I want.