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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

Happy feet: how fancy slippers took over the world

Slippers
Fancy footwear for the great indoors. Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian

Cicero, Leonardo da Vinci and Shakespeare all thought that eyes were the windows to the soul, but with due respect to the big dogs, I beg to differ. It is shoes which tell you everything. Hype trainers worn with a bland suit; teetering heels worn in defiance of practicality; scuffed ballet pumps; haute hiking boots or polished brogues – shoes hold the clues to what you do all day and how you get there, to whether you really want to be at the party and who you are going home with.

Slippers on sofa
From left: sheepskin moccasins, £48, The Small Home; shearling slip-ons, £117, The Sleeper at net-a-porter.com; two-stripes sheepskin slippers, £80, Mou. Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian
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