Slippers against the cold: creative models and interesting facts

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

“Put on your slippers, the floors are cold” - this phrase has been passed down from generation to generation in Russian families as an indisputable truth. And even if sometime in childhood we allowed ourselves seditious thoughts in the style: "but I feel so good", "why can't we barefoot?" and “who invented this rule at all?" So the question is: do they behave the same way in other countries? Or is the penchant for slipperphilia inherent only in compatriots?

This is how foreigners relate to slippers

There is no consensus and attitude towards slippers. The Internet is replete with forums with controversial theories. Someone argues that the French do not take off their street shoes in the house, justifying the habit by the lack of heating (citizens save on expensive utilities). Moreover, some eyewitnesses supplement the stories with shocking details like: “Oh, horror! They can lie on the sofa right in their shoes! Well, each monastery has its own statutes …

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In other European countries, for example, in Germany, it is customary to wear socks. Heated floors, feet free - why not. Well, what if guests came? Connoisseurs of the local rules of hospitality testify that the offer to take off your shoes can be perceived as bad form. However, people are people everywhere. You can negotiate! Our fellow citizens, who have been living abroad for a long time, describe situations in which they easily managed to "re-educate" people who came to the house - a humorous announcement was hung at the entrance with a request to satisfy a little master's whim and use slippers. There were no problems.

Our love for slippers is historically based

If you recall the pre-revolutionary traditions, then we did not ask the guests to take off their shoes. The solution to the problem was the universal word "galoshes", which separates the street dirt from the clean soles of the invitees. Times have changed - the streets have become cleaner … but not here. Maybe that's why today only European homeowners can easily afford to move between outside and inside without changing equipment.

Well, even if ours is not so clean that you can walk around the house in street shoes, but we are actively involved in the development of the "slipper" industry. And she reciprocates us, for example, in terms of creativity. Recently, for example, slippers in the shape of rats appeared on sale: gray, shaggy, cozy and incredibly similar to real carcasses of rodents. How can I resist? Imagine: in the morning, asleep, you lower your feet from the bed, fumble in search of … and here they are. This model will cheer up anyone!

More examples of slippery creativity

Aren't tailed beasts scared? How about arthropods? Will a couple of spiders on your legs add shocking? If you meet guests in such "furry", they will not only remember that they need to change their shoes, but all evening they will only talk about the shoe traditions of their native country. And if the arachnids do not get through, finish off the resisted zombie slippers, with tongues and eyes falling out.

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However, if the "passions-muzzles" are not impressive, but there is a tendency to "mimicry", then for you the manufacturers will find a dozen interesting options. For example, a felt garden-melon series: slippers-watermelons, slippers-pods and the like.

Slippers are our everything! They are given, they are worn, they are bragged about. They add not only convenience to our life, but also a positive one.

But what about the men? Have they been overlooked? Who will protect the stronger sex from the cold? Of course, armored vehicles! Dedicated to all fans of World of Tanks: knitted models of tank destroyers, T-34, T-90 and foreign analogues - choose what you want. You can play for days: legs are warm, hands are busy. Those, who are not alien to self-criticism, will like slippers-hands … in the right - a can of beer, in the left - a remote control. Everything is like in life!

And how, with such a variety of models, can there be a desire to give up the habit of changing shoes for home? Slippers are our everything! They are given, they are worn, they are bragged about. They add not only convenience, but also positiveness to our life. It is enough to look at the legs of the household, shod in "crocodiles", or herring shale, and the mood changes. So the tradition of "wearing slippers" should be kept at least so that the emotional mood in families changes for the better.