Comfortable women's and men's slippers for spring and summer

Sleepers are summer shoes without laces and fasteners. Slippers (from the English. Slippers - slippers) really look like room slippers. The name comes from the word to slip - to slide, meaning to slide on the grated parquet. These shoes are available for both men and women.

Sleepers are semi-closed shoes with a small toe on the instep of the foot, with a thin sole, sometimes there is a small heel height. They are comfortable and comfortable. The top of the slippers can be made of textiles, for example, velvet or cotton, but there are also leather and suede models.

Sleepers appeared in 1840, and they were called house slippers. They were originally made of velvet, with silk lining and embroidery on the toe.

Men's slippers for the first time, Prince Albert wore as a house shoe, which he replaced the official one. They began to be called "Albert". Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, wore black velvet slippers with a pattern on the front. They were leather lined with leather soles. In them, the prince always rested in the palace.

In other words, sleepers first appeared in the wardrobe of men. A velvet tuxedo was meant for them. English gentlemen wore sleepers at home in anticipation of guests and often went out in them for evening tea.

Sleepers remained popular for a long time, then the style began to gradually change, the original model faded into the shadows. In the 60s, sleepers began to take to the streets and became the perfect companions for chinos pants and jumpers. In the 90s, sleepers again became the favorites when choosing casual shoes.

In 2005, the Albert-style slippers, at the initiative of Mattew Chevalard, who created the Del Toro company, turned into street shoes. At the beginning of its existence, the Del Toro brand sold exclusively "aristocratic slippers", velvet slippers.

Worldwide success for sleepers was finally secured in 2011, after they were spotted on the feet of rapper and music producer Kanye West.

As mentioned above, sleepers have become a respected shoe not only on the feet of men, but also of women.

Nowadays, comfortable and elegant sleepers are produced, made not only from textiles and genuine leather, but even from "shoeless" materials, for example, with a textile knitted top, in various colors, with funny patterns or embroidery on the toe. In them you can feel like Winston Churchill, who could not imagine home comfort without this type of footwear.

Today sleepers are used not only for home, they are elevated to the rank of the most popular. Men wear them with a casual suit. And for women, they have become an alternative to sandals and ballet flats. Although slippers were originally men's shoes, in the hands of designers, with lace and rhinestones trimmings, they become feminine and graceful.

Sleepers are versatile shoes, they can be combined with any clothing: light chiffon dresses with a floral print, shorts, cropped trousers, skinny jeans, etc.

However, stylists do not recommend wearing these shoes with pajama-style trousers, after all, sleepers were originally slippers, and the image in pajamas and slippers is not quite for the street ...

If you do not have sleepers, be sure to buy, then you can appreciate all their benefits.