These shoes are too loud. It sounds like I'm walking on gravel or garden shavings all over the place. I don't care how comfortable they are if I can't just step outside and enjoy the sounds around me, including the silence, especially the silence without the constant crunch, crunch, crunch with every step I take. It's almost funny if it weren't so annoying. And they are not beautiful. I probably wouldn't mind the ugly ones if they weren't so loud. Too bad.