Buying slippers - for houses where you take off your shoes. Post 748 by Angela Lansbury.
Last week I went to dinner at a house where I was asked to take off my shoes. On the way I stopped at another house half way to get a lift.. They also preferred guests to remove shoes. They had a child under five years old who played on the floor, and new carpets. They had stairs. Backless slippers are not safe on stairs. Backless slippers can slide off when you lift your legs. Dangerous. In Asia a lot of people have spare slippers for visitors. In the UK you are more likely to need to bring your own shoes At the second home I was offered a pair of slip on shoes. This meant have shoes which were tight on my toes, or large so I risked losing one, or falling over. I thought, I'd rather wear a new pair of shoes, once in a while, rather than other people's old shoes which are less elegant, not co-ordinating colours, other people's foot sweat, could even be giving me verrucas or other foot problems. Sometimes I remember to take with me a pair of Crocs or cheaper \Croc-style sh...