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Why do the fleece crocs still have holes in them, it makes no sense? I feel old even opening this thread.
nbt is not allowed outside in his slippers. He has gardening shoes for the garden, garage shoes for the garage and shoes/boots for everything else.
Oh and dancing shoes for dancing.
His slippers are some lined suede things I bought locally. I'm not a fan of men in slippers, however we have wooden floors and tiles.
we have wooden floors and tiles.
Socks are best here. It means you can slide everywhere rather than walking.
+1 Teva Ember Moc.
I have similar domestic footwear requirements to you OP (except for the phishing on the pheasants bit)
Have been happily wearing these for many a year.
https://www.nznature.co.nz/sheepskin-slipper-clog
According to the blurb, people go out shopping and watch the ‘footie’ in them FFS (although, that is in NZ). Anyway, can vouch for comfort, warmth and indeed, outside slash-friendliness.
Celtic Sheepskin do a less fancy version, but these are the daddies.
Flashy daraaaing, you need a pair of North Face tent slippers
like having two sleeping bags on your feet. You look like a golf club but who cares? I’ve got mine on at the moment. They’re the snuggliest, toastiest, double-cosiest thing you can put on your feet. Leave your dignity at the front door, but not quite to the extent of wearing Crocs. A step too far* for anyone possessing an ounce of self-respect 🙂
* see what I did there?
Thanks (almost) all. Some great suggestions to look in to in amongst the expected!
Oh, and going for a pee outside? Saving water, innit? 😎
Close the forum, take down the site.
It has finally happened - a “what slippers for ‘working from home’*” thread.
*By the way is ‘working from home’ still a euphemism for doing half a day’s work and spending the rest of the time knocking one out?
Slight digression but MrsMC came back the other week from NZ with a pair of merino and possum (ffs!) socks. They are just like wearing slippers but not. I've just worn them for the third time without a wash and they feel like foot heaven, walked me all around Liverpool and Port Sunlight and Manchester today. So, socks might be your nirvana foot solution rather than slippers. Maybe.
I wouldn't get to wound up on slippers, over the past 3 or so winters i have wore a pair of dunnes and a pair of m&s , both priced at about £10/11 or thereabouts. They have served their purpose as a wear about the house, keep feet warm style shoe. Personally now I prefer a nice thick wool sock for about inside in the winter, and if i'm going out I just slip a boot on.
Why do the fleece crocs still have holes in them
The dignity has to get out somewhere!
I give you......tasselled house shoes!
I work from home and have been booted out to work in the garden room instead of the study which is now a toy room / 4th bedroom. It's has been great over summer but not looking forward to winter in an unheated room with a tile floor.
I know my Homeys won't be up to the job so this thread is useful, many of the ones people have posted don't look warm though. Those North Face tent mules look toasty though
Mrs CFH has the traction variant of those TNF mules, and they're as toasty as a talkie toaster.
They are, however, hideous. I know that this is all subjective, and that non-munting slippers are rarer than rocking horse poo, but still...!
Sanuk sandles make pretty good slippers. I have a fur lined pair.
Going outside for a piss?! Balls.... smoker I reckon...frankly I'm shocked and appalled.
+ 1 for da socks and da crocs....
Just do it...
By the way is ‘working from home’ still a euphemism for doing half a day’s work and spending the rest of the time knocking one out?
Half a day ?
Ammaturerer..
And by 10am you’re normally blowing dust.
I don’t do slippers. If I did it would be a pair of Mahibis.
mahabis do what you want
no they don't - they are just an example of shiny internet marketing.
the felt material looks tatty real quick and the neoprene heel support offers no support.
I see that they've changed the design so that the previously removable plastic sole is not now removable, although they touted it as a major feature. In reality it was insecure and just waiting to trip you up.
They have also increased the depth of the heel cup so they you can't use them as step-in mules, which was another of their original features that was suppossed to be so good.
So why have the heel cup so low and have that stupid neoprene fitting that offers no support. Because if they removed it they would be admitting that their first design, which was suppossedly 'slippers reinvented', was flawed.
I had a couple of pairs - the wife wouldn't wear them as they were so poor, I did for a while but gave up as they looked so tatty quickly and offered no heel support, as I don't like mules.
Bought some Eccos which are excellent although I am not sure they make them anymore.
What's wrong with having a wee outside, we do it all the time when mtbing.
My own slippers are a fair Isle knit with fluffy cuff from Laura Ashley , stylish and warm. Mmmmm.
https://www.shoegarden.co.uk/collections/mens-felt-clogs Got Haflingers and love them!
What’s wrong with having a wee outside, we do it all the time when mtbing.
A better solution... open the window and wee out of it. then you're weeing outside, inside. Best of both worlds until you piss on the window sill.
Second the Halflingers . Get the Torbens.
Don't make you sweat. Warm in the winter,cool in the summer. Shaped insole. Can wear outdoors too.
Yes, they are expensive, but last and last
When i can find them, these are fantastic....
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... i've had a number of versions over the years. These are the Tent Mule, the Traction Mule has a more "outdoor" sole.
Just what you need for lounging around in the tent at base camp:
Mahabis - slippers designed by a former barrister! That would explain why they are ridiculously expensive and useless. Slippers for the first world.
Haflingers are so good I found myself 'out out' in Waitrose wearing them.
I got a pair of Mahabis for xmas, they went straight back.
the soles of the tent mule wear out, get the traction if you are going to get NFace
also, don't go outside in slippers!
What’s wrong with having a wee outside, we do it all the time when mtbing.
anyway
Halfingers . They're not really slippers - so if you go outside in them you're not going out in your slippers. Properly put together and keeps their form/ structure for a long time
Gentlemen and Ladies, I give you the ultimate in Old Persons attire whilst WFH...
Those things are usually worn by the dodgy looking guy in the market who sells broken biscuits and out of date dog food
Round here, those guys are usually wearing crocs or wellies. Cheap ones at that. I’ve had a pair of Merrell Winter Mocs, a bit like those I posted, for the best part of fifteen years, maybe more, and they’re brilliant slippers, my feet don’t get wet if I go outside to fill the bird feeders if it’s wet, and I don’t slide on the wet paving slabs like I did in my old sheepskin slippers, and the later pair with plastic soles. And nobody really gives a shit that I’m wearing them if I need to walk along to the shop for milk or other essentials.
Ive got a pair of Croc-analogues, they’re fine, in the summer, but if it gets wet, they’re bloody lethal on the patio paving slabs, I’ve slipped up a couple of times wearing them.
Leaving outside shoes by the kitchen door means they’ll get in the way, there’s no space available, and left outside they’ll get soaking wet if it rains. Anyway, it’s my bloody house, the kitchen floor is lino with mats on, and there’s a mat to wipe your feet both sides of the kitchen door. Bugger fannying around with different shoes just to go in and out of my own house to the garden. Working on the garden, now that’s different.
Bought a pair of Sorel Falcon Ridge
Trying them out tonight, they're too warm! This bodes well.
Too warm for summer, truly excellent in winter.
I bought Mrs_oab Sorel's last Christmas, again feedback was how damn warm they are.
My WFH feet warming solution for this winter is North Face tractions and a heated mat on the floor under my desk.
Lined crocs before the airlock and then normal crocks for space walk.
I think they're okay.
Anyone wear Nuvola’s? They’re currently on Sportspursuit for cheapness
Mahabis https://mahabis.com/
/a> they are expensive but last a long time.