TLDR: desert red does not look orange IRL. The stock image is accurate.

I see this in store every time I walked past and I must have tried it at least 5 times and returned them to the shelf, telling myself that it looks orange, and I do not like orange that much.

Spoke to the educators and they told me the color looks like the image on the website. It is a pastel red and not orange.

The entire store’s lighting is warm white, so, I hypothesized that it could be due to the lighting in the store. Finally, I took it to the cashier and check it out. I figured that I could return it if I do not like the color when I tried it at home.

Actually I could not wait to get back home, I immediately changed in a public toilet in the mall, walked all the way out to the car patk, still with the hang tag and all to have a look at myself under natural lighting through my car mirror. Bamm. The color looks exactly the website image. It is a deep pastel shade of red. No hint of orange at all. 🤯

I returned immediately back to the store to also pick up the matching socks. This is now my favorite color.

So folks, if you fell in love with the color on the website, only to see orange and hated it in store, give this item a chance under natural lighting.