I bought these to wear under a teal sweater dress, and they are true to color in the photo, a dark coffee color. They are long, I'm 5' 3", and they hit at my ankle bone. I do have a bit of issue with them rolling down and slinking down if I'm doing a quite a bit of walking. I walked 4 blocks rather briskly because I was running late and they slowly worked their way down. Then I was even later because I had to adjust them. Sigh. I did wear them another night where I did not walk as much and they were fine. So if your wearing them to an event that requires a lot of movement maybe wearing shorts or undies over them will keep them in place.
 They are soft, and of a thicker type of material. I wore them with my teal dress and calf boots and my legs did not get cold even though it was 25 degrees out and snowing.