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Boogie
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It's high time we discussed our slippers ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
I have three slipper solutions -
-> My downstairs slippers which are FitFlop leather clogs. Excellent, very comfortable and fine for going outside in, pottering in the garden. They are so well made I think they will 'see me out'. I sometimes forget and get in the car to go shopping with them on!
--> Upstairs fluffy mules for bedroom and bathroom, too flimsy for all day wear but great for those 'just out of the bath' moments.
--> Fluffy socks for putting on when feet are up reading a book/watching TV, when solid soles simply don't cut the comfort mustard.
One has to be comfortable, no?
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It has taken me years to work out the perfect slipper solution - what is yours?
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Welease Woderwick
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Mine is very simple - bare feet! It is warm here all year so no need of insulation. In this culture outdoor shoes never come inside - Himself wears flip-flops in the house but most folks just use the bare feet solution.
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Boogie:
It has taken me years to work out the perfect slipper solution - what is yours?
Haven't worn a pair since the late 90s. There's just no need for them. Socks work fine in cold weather, barefoot fine in hot weather. If you think that your socks or soles are getting unnecessarily dirty, then it's time to clean the floor.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Sipech:
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Originally posted by Boogie:
It has taken me years to work out the perfect slipper solution - what is yours?
Haven't worn a pair since the late 90s. There's just no need for them. Socks work fine in cold weather, barefoot fine in hot weather. If you think that your socks or soles are getting unnecessarily dirty, then it's time to clean the floor.
Haha - not with two Labradors it wouldn't be! Even in rare 'clean floor' moments too much hair would gather sockwards in seconds. My niece has underfloor heating and they simply wear socks - too brrrrrrrrr here for that
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LeRoc
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When I arrived in the UK in May this years, I hadn't worn shoes in more than 15 years!
In Brazil or in Africa, I usually wear sandals outdoors, flip-flops on the beach, and I go barefoot indoors.
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la vie en rouge
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Most people wear slippers indoors here. The main reason is that everyone lives in apartments, a lot of them quite old, and slippers make far less noise. Carpets are fairly rare (mostly parquet floors) and there is nothing worse than the upstairs neighbour coming home at midnight and clomping about on your ceiling in their shoes.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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There's a wonderful bit at the beginning of Hilary Mantel's Fludd where a housewife is contemplating her slippers in their fluffy newness - before they become grey, draggled and covered in chip fat.
The only other literary slipper I can think of at the moment is the Persian one in the toe of which Holmes keeps his pipe tobacco.
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To The Pain
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I have australian sheepskin mule-style slippers. Before them I had the most wonderful pair of sheepskin and possum fur slippers from New Zealand, but eventually I wore them bald.
I never wore slippers before I left home but I grew up with carpet and generally ran hotter when I was younger. Now that I live in a flat with laminate flooring, I have taken up slipper-wearing.
I also have a pair of 'camping crocs' that are a couple of sizes too big - this means I can shove my thickly socked feet into them for loo runs on campsites, but I also use them as garden slippers, or in place of slippers when I am going to be coming and going a lot - a bit like Boogie's downstairs slippers. They are also cooler than my regular slippers and saved me from getting holey feet when the kitchen floor was pulled up in the summer and there were wee nail heads lying in wait for incautious tootsies.
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Jane R
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There's Nanny Ogg's red boots in 'Witches Abroad' - I mean, Dorothy's ruby slippers in 'The Wizard of Oz'.
I usually buy something like these to wear indoors. I have a pair of plastic clogs next to the back door for wearing in the garden.
My daughter wanders around the house with socks on (in winter) or barefoot (in summer).
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Sioni Sais
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I have a fairly conventional pair of slippers plus a pair of plastic-soled sandals that are ideal for dashing out to fetch the shopping in when the paths and road are wet (ie, almost all the time in Wales).
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Lamb Chopped
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Bare feet. For some reason my feet always overheat, so bare it is, even in winter.
For outside there is the usual Vietnamese heap of shoes by the door. Grab what fits.
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Pigwidgeon
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These are the only kind I've worn in years in cold weather -- comfy around the house and also o.k. for quick trips outdoors with the dog or to get the newspaper from the driveway. In warm weather (this is Arizona!) I live in flip-flops around the house.
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I have a pair of downfilled slippers that are rather essential when sitting and not active. In the house, normally bare feet. I've found that down to about -10°C barefeet are okay for brief outside things, like taking the recycling out, unless the snow isn't cleared. There's a claim that our blood chemistry changes over the winter months to tolerate colder weather. But I think a good deal of it is state of mind and how one thinks about it.
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Brenda Clough
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I feel the cold, so I have a range of winter footwear for indoors. Right now it is cold enough for moose-skin moccasins lined with flannel, like these. In the deeps of winter I have to resort to down-insulated moon booties.
In summer I have a pair of plastic slippers that started life as swimming scuffs. And I cannot fall asleep with cold feet, so in season I wear fluffy acrylic bed socks.
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Boogie
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They look amazing Brenda!
I have a heat pad for my feet, you microwave it and the heat lasts for 12 hours!! (not that I sleep that long, you understand )
Heat Pad
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Brenda Clough
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I have experimented with both heated mattress pads and electric blankets, which are cheaper. I wrote a book once about Titus Oates (who famously froze to death in Antarctica) and ever since have felt the cold terribly.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Brenda Clough: I wrote a book once about Titus Oates (who famously froze to death in Antarctica) and ever since have felt the cold terribly.
I've been looking for famous discoverers who fell into a volcano. Maybe you can write a book about them to balance out a bit
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I wrote a book once about Titus Oates (who famously froze to death in Antarctica)
I always understood he died in his bed in 1705.
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HCH
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A minor correction: In "The Wizard of Oz", the slippers are silver, not ruby. When the film was made, they were changed to ruby.
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L'organist
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Traditional sheepskin slippers with the fold over bit (if you know what I mean) and with hard soles so that they don't get ruined if I go out into the garden and get them wet.
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balaam
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Nothing beats a good pair of slippers.
So I wear nothing, and it beats slippers. Bare feet as God intended indoors, unless its cold.
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North East Quine
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I wear proper old lady baffies.
I also have a pair of thin terry cotton flip-flops for travelling.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Boogie:
It's high time we discussed our slippers
Good heavens, do people still wear them? I thought they'd died out decades ago.
I always kick off my shoes in the hall when I get home and that's that. Socks or barefoot indoors, kinder to your carpets and rugs as well.
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I always get slippers thinking they are going to be great, but then I end up padding about in bare feet.
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Brenda Clough
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You must live in nice warm climates! Here it is cold in winter, and it's too expensive to pump the heat up until it is warm enough to be barefoot. Socks and layers are cheaper. And slippers get you up off the cold floor.
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Stercus Tauri
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It's so long since I owned a pair of slippers that I can't remember them - fifty years, probably. At home I always have two pairs of wooden soled Swedish clogs, for inside and outside. For my feet, they are the most comfortable footwear ever invented. I can stand for hours in them working at a bench, I often drive the car with them on, and my feet still feel good at the end of the day, even with a little bit of arthritis. The soles are good insulation on cold floors (the only kind we have) and they allow fresh air to circulate in the summer - perfect!
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cliffdweller
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I mostly wear fluffy socks or bare feet. On occasion will wear a faux-fur lined faux-leather mules, but usually it's too warm here so I end up kicking them off after 30 min. or so.
but the really big news in slippers for parents everywhere is the new Lego Protection Slippers. If they work, these will be a fabulous invention, although sadly about 5 years too late to protect my tender soles.
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Lothlorien
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Shag pile carpet was in vogue when my sons were at Lego stage. I can remember looking carefully and then kneeling on a piece hidden deep down in carpet.
I have sheepskin scuffs with solid soles but rarely wear them. In winter I wear hand knit pure wool socks and in summer I go barefoot. If it is a really cold day, I will also wear a pair of blissfully comfortable Rockport lace ups. Expensive, but they are still in very good condition after many years of wear, both inside and out.
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Mamacita
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Now that it's late autumn, I am wearing a new pair of Minnetonka Moccasins. They are suede lined with sheepskin, and they are very warm and comfy as I putter about the house.
If the temperature really drops, I'll wear fuzzy socks to bed, which totally makes me feel like an old woman, but I find I can't fall asleep of my feet are cold.
I'll be back to flip-flops indoors ... in about six months.
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Huia
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I have purple sheepskin wool lined slippers that come about a third of the way up my calf. They have possum innersoles which are brilliant because the fibre is hollow.
Apart from their warmth (and being purple ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ) the bestest thing about them is that they are made in Christchurch, which not only gives local people work, but also means that when the factory has a 'seconds sale' where $70+ slippers are sold for $20 due to small flaws I can take advantage.
I ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) my slippers.
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Firenze
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You denizens of steamy climes - what do you know of the bliss of snuggling a bare foot into a sheepskin embrace on a cold morning?
Meanwhile, there's Jacques' lean and slipper'd Pantaloone and, of course, dem golden slippers.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I always kick off my shoes in the hall when I get home and that's that. Socks or barefoot indoors, kinder to your carpets and rugs as well.
Wooden floors and two big recently hosed down Labradors = a need for good slippers!
My husband wears flip flops all year round - in winter with socks ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Penny S
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Socks or bare feet according to season. My parents despaired.
I have a pair of woolly long socks with soles, but have had to wash them ready to pass them on via Oxfam, as a single wearing revealed that the way my feet slipped about inside them made them very dangerous on the two flights of stairs.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I'm pretty sure that in the comics of my childhood - Beano, Dandy, Beezer - Dad's slipper always had a starring role in the last frame. Hitting your children with footwear seems to have faded in popularity as a denouncement these days.
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Firenze
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Oh, and ...there bounded on to the stage from some mysterious inlet, a little girl in a dirty white frock with tucks up to the knees, short trousers, sandaled shoes, white spencer, pink gauze bonnet, green veil and curl papers; who turned a pirouette, cut twice in the air, turned another pirouette, then, looking off at the opposite wing, shrieked, bounded forward to within six inches of the footlights, and fell into a beautiful attitude of terror, as a shabby gentleman in an old pair of buff slippers came in at one powerful slide, and chattering his teeth, fiercely brandished a walking-stick.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Firenze:
You denizens of steamy climes - what do you know of the bliss of snuggling a bare foot into a sheepskin embrace on a cold morning?
I can remember that sort of thing. And how cold and clammy they could initially feel in the chill of a December morning, in one of those houses where the cold struck up through the stone floors and you could see your breath in the air.
Those were the days of bedsocks (so bare feet were never really an issue), and hot water bottles, mostly. And the fun of waking up in the middle of the night with a cold, clammy thing in your bed, and now and again, discovering that your hot water bottle was not only stone cold but had leaked during the night.
Ahh, those were the days. Or nights.
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Graven Image
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I wear flip flops inside in the summer.
I wear heavy socks inside in the winter.
I still morn the pair of very fancy feather trimmed slippers I left in a hotel room on my honeymoon 49 years ago.
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Brenda Clough
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This is the kind of thing I have been wearing to bed. They are significantly warmer than woolen socks. They are too bulky to fit into most of my shoes, alas, so they are only suited to indoor and bed wear. But they are very warm, and cheap.
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Banner Lady
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Originally posted by Boogie:
My husband wears flip flops all year round - in winter with socks
He must be English. TP still does this. Black socks with thongs (flip flops) instead of slippers. The socks are often holey. Because shoving them into the flip flops causes sock stress.
This from a man who refuses to wear crocs because they are so gauche. He is still looking for a solution as to what to wear to do his gardening when it is too hot for wellies outside. He has never owned a pair of sandals, and never will. He detests boat shoes and sneakers. He doesn't mind men's mocasins or mules, but they can be hard to find here. Yet he thinks black socks with thongs is fine.
After nearly four decades together I still do not understand this, and I guess I never will. Sigh.
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Pigwidgeon
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You could give him some toe socks for Christmas.
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Brenda Clough
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Or here. For some extremely colorful options.
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Banner Lady
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It has been tried. I even brought him back some genuine ninja toe socks from Japan. He looked at me as though I had gone mad. "As if any self-respecting English gent would wear those!" he snorted.
Yet black socks in thongs is fine. Go figure. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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