Fellow shopping activity participants and patrons of mall cruising - you understand when I say that purchasing shoes is a rather special experience. It's rather unequal from the regular "I need a new cane" or " I need a new pair of tighty whities" kind of shopping. Feel me? Browns offers a selection for all friends and family. Even 50 cent can mute his "window shopper" tune and shop for realz. We are all familiar with the hassle of trying on, changing, trying on unchanging again, trying on and OOPS they don't have your size in the secretive cave called 'the back'. Keeping all that in mind, I was happy to find what I came for and how easy it was. I decided I'd post my review into a list of few well witted, colourfully clarified and thoughtfully thunk-ed out reasons. 1- There's only so much colours you can choose from. There's no neon and pastel clashing going on here. Granted this might be a con to the random fad operational shoppers BUT when you know what you want,it makes purchasing easy peasy. 2- Free leg workout. I say this on a positive note because much like every shoe store, you have to try on the prospective pair to carefully asses if it suffices the umph your looking for. Considering how small this retail space is, you will have to do some serious crawling on top of boxes or boyfriends waiting for their gf's who decide to stand right in the middle of my way, or the ever so courteous shoppers that place all the shopping bags ON the seat forcing me to stand/work on my calves and last but not least the stealth ninja balancing you will have to prep for to dodge lost children (seriously parents, where are you? Heels are dangerous!) 3- Browns reminds me of Winners(which I also happen to enjoy). Carrying a vast selection of brands and past season styles set up around the store without any particular hierarchy to designer. So, if you are the type of apparel owner that knows what you want, this place is for you. 4- Friendly and knowledgeable staff. I must admit that this was the main reason I decided to dust my Yelp account and write a review on 1 store in a Gargantua mall. Because really, who else would appreciate a good staff service more? With that said, the staff is really friendly and super helpful. They have a casual approach and are quite knowledgeable about styles and details. Before walking into Browns I did make a quick stop at the Michael Korrs store. You see, I fancy Rain boots and every year for the past 4 years I scout on line to find a new pair to add to my collection. Based on my style and desired requirements, In January I opted on a M.Korrs pair. Unfortunately, that particular style came out a few seasons back. So the MK store did not carry it. You would assume if you go into an MK store, the all girl staff will either tell you they don't carry it or at least attempt at hiding the disgruntled "ughh you've disrupted my chit chat time" look on their faces. How rude! The first 2 ignored me completely. Another little Asian number barely looked my way as she walked right past me. I did check to see if my outfit was in camouflage. It was not. The icing? - the store is TINY. When I finally walked up to the register girl, she said " if its not there, we don't have it". Gee, thanks for checking. What the heck is with this bunch? There were 3 other customers and it seemed like they were helped fine. I really found this treatment quite offensive. Perhaps it was my lack of LV purse or the unkept hair that made me an unworthy customer, who knows .... but Fret not! Like a fairy tale ending I tip my hat off to the one customer that politely mentioned I should try the Browns right across. As soon as I walked in, a younger girl greeted me and asked if I was shopping for myself or a gift. Even though it was absolutely packed like a hunger games line up, she was pleasant and cool as a cucumber. Low and behold she knew exactly the style I was looking for.... which conveniently brings me to my last shopping bonus point! 5- Discounts on out of season purchases - They did have it! and and Huzza! my size was available in stock!!!!! How wonderful! I tried on a few more shoes and upon paying standard, the friendly rep let me know that most out of season is at discount price. Noice~! So, for all your shoe fetishes and desires, I give this place 4.5. The .5 is for the cramped space. Happy shoe shopping (^_^) xoxo M.