They came in a beautiful brown box, wrapped in pink tissue paper. Sadly, it was downhill from there...the stitching was undone before I even tried them on. The leather is buttery soft, but the inside sole on both shoes was bumpy. The leather seems like high quality but the workmanship was terrible.  Poor quality control on the part of Walking Cradles, but Amazon's exceptional customer service took the sting out of a bad experience.