Good socks, nice and warm and pretty looking (got a lot of sock-based compliments whilst wearing them.) HOWEVER, and I think this is an issue of just lace-up socks that have pretty display laces in general, is that after one wash the ribbon bits of the socks that make it look laced up came apart from their stitching, and I had to re-stitch them back on- except they kept doing this every wash. So long story short: good socks, just the ribbons come undone reaaaal fast.