I've seen a lot of pretty shoes lately, but not necessarily sexy shoes. These are them! Great fit. Great quality. Joan & David! The color is listed as gray, because the bow and trim is a dark gray patent leather; however, the shoe is brown. IT WORKS! You can wear it with ivory, cream, gray, brown, etc. The color combination is subtle genius, the brown is a dark taupe of a brown...I think that's why the shiny gray bow works so well. This a feminine shoe. The heel is curvy...not coming straight down the back (that would be boring). I'm thinking of getting this fine shoe in another color. Everywhere I went someone told me how fine these high heel shoes are...I said, "thank you." but I really wanted to say, "I know!" ;o)