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I know, I know...! The shame!
The context, I WFH in a draughty old farmhouse and the house is normally empty apart from me at my desk during the day. So, would like something warm, durable enough to step outside for a slash/to shoot rabbits, and at least relatively tasteful. Not Uggs.
I am, of course, expecting the predictable responses, but hoping for a gem of a recommendation among them.
Act as decoys too.
Camper Wabi
Sorel Falcon Ridge tick all your boxes.
Teva Ember Moc
Fleece lined crocs. Perfect indoor outdoor slippers. Not TOO hot either
kind of like indoor Uggs but still the most warm I've ever had
Mokkers! Canny beat a moccasin slipper, the mark of a man about town.
North Face tent mules do it for me.
Drapers of Glastonbury. Wellies for your outside tasks.
Emu Australia.
Wonderfully snug sheepskin slippers. Great quality, had my current pair for about 5years, genuinely look forward to putting them on every day, they are so cozy.
They are a standard present for friends and family.
There are a few styles to choose from.
They are a little but spendy but worth it for the amount of time you will wear them. It is usually possible to find them reduced somewhere online.
http://www.emuaustralia.com/uk/Mens/All-Footwear
Ortovox Monialm. I love mine, wife loves hers.
On my third pair of these, over 15 odd years. Even get away with odd trip to the pub
These were recommended a few years ago and are really good
Can't vouch for rabbit shooting but I stamp on the faces of baby robins with mine and the gore rinses right off. Magic
Surely Gucci Princetowns are at the top of your list. Surprised you even asked 😄
However I lurve my Dude fartys. The right blend of indoor/outdoor.
https://www.heydudeshoes.co.uk/mens-shoes-c45/farty-t137
And I can't believe I'm actually responding to a request for a recommendation for a pair of slippers!
I prefer something like these mocs, comfy around the house, fine to wear outside, and I don’t look a tit if I forget and wear them to the shops.
I've searched and searched and searched.
I can't find that bloody picture of the shoes in first class 🙁
Lined crocs ftw.
Bedroom athletics tweed/ sheepskin slip ons. Last me about 4 yrs per pair and don’t ever smell as they’re all natural stuff. Live in a draughty old house with rough wooden floors. Wouldn’t be without them.
Not cheap but they last. No need to wash!
I bu6 them on sale
https://www.bedroomathletics.com/william-harris-tweed-mule-slippers-olive-pow-check
Agree with Mary, I wouldn't be without my Guggi Leather Princetowns. That baby kangaroo fur is just so lovely.
Just wear those old things you wore in First Class, obviously you found them comfortable but at least this way they are confined to your office and not exposed to the unfortunate public.
Or Birkenstocks.
You need Dr Feet, doc doc doc doc doctor feet............I love 'em
But, ah, I don't live in a draughty farmhouse. Maybe with a pair of BIG socks they'd be ok...
Socks. Crocs.
Birks n Sox
Nordicas all day long. My driving slippers, my garden shoes, my everything.
Birks n sox you say?
Just go with fleece lined crocs and be damned. Comfy, practical, easy to clean. Look a douche. I wear them well.
Another vote for Gucci Princetowns, nothing else comes close.
I'm currently rocking a pair of Fur Herringbone Slippers With Wolf Head with cropped jeans and a white T. Simply delicious.
Am I the only one wondering why the OP has to go outside for a slash? Is the old farmhouse so old it has an outside toilet?
Am I the only one wondering why the OP has to go outside for a slash?
It's so he can assert his dominance over the serfs who live on his estates. He pishes on them.
That's why they're known as peons.
I don’t do slippers. If I did it would be a pair of Mahibis. I only know one person who has forked out the astronomical price - but this is something you are going to wear every day so not ridiculous.
Bedroom Athletics slipper boots, almost too warm.
I was bought some fleecy Crocs. The're sweaty.
I can highly recommend the Camper wool slippers I had before them though.
If you ware slippers outside what's the point just ware normal shoes. You are still wearing shoes outside and inside
No shoes inside house for us and crocks copies by every door for popping outside. Thick socks over normal socks if cold inside, will still fit inside crocks.
@Countzero, who has said that you don't look like a tit wearing those to the shops?
Those things are usually worn by the dodgy looking guy in the market who sells broken biscuits and out of date dog food. 😉
Surely for sir, Crockett and Jones?
+1 for lady gresley's query about going outside for a slash.
And +1 for atlaz ^^^ with the Crockett & Jones. Trickers do very similar - velvet, red cushioned lining, leather sole & heel.
Agreed - why would you want to wear slippers outside and inside house??
my wife certainly wouldn’t appreciate that!
Haflinger Grizzly range. Felt uppers cork/rubber soles.
Who gets wear wrong, but wearing right?
Older Camper Wabis had a back, they don't any longer! I hate warm slippers, my feet are rarely cold so perhaps a pair of flip-flops of quality (decent Reef ones for example) and a dose of MTFU for not getting cold in the draught?
+1 for the Swedish.
I've got an older version of these.
https://www.shepherdofsweden.dk/sheepskin-slippers/anton-sheepskin-slippers-camel
A cross between Uggs and those slippers that your granny used to wear, which I like.
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.