Slippers or House Shoes?

[papayahed]

What do you call them?

[MystyrMystyry]

Slippers. But I more usually refer to them as bastards when I trip over them at night. I bought a new pair recently which are still on the wrong side of stiff. They get called the Mother of Bastards quite a lot because they can cause me to end up sprawled all over the piece of furniture with the most jutting out bits

[OrphanPip]

Slippers, I've never even heard of them being called house shoes. Is that an American expression?

[Scheherazade]

Slippers for me, too.

[Emil Miller]

House shoe is what they are sometimes called in Germany but they are more often referred to today as Pantoffeln.

[Maryd.]

Neither... I run around the house in socks... Skidding on the tiles, from one side of the house to the other, like a school girl... But an old gal... With an accident waiting to happen!
Hee hee hee

[Lokasenna]

It would appear that 'slippers' have won the day...

[billl]

In your face, house shoes.

[kiki1982]

House shoe is what they are sometimes called in Germany but they are more often referred to today as Pantoffeln.

Yup, met an old lady in Poland (in her 80s). She had learned German during the occupation in the 1940s and called them 'Hausschuhe'. I have never heard them called that here in Germany now and indeed, they are rather called the French way: 'Pantoffeln' (from 'pantoufle').

Though, we call them slippers in English.

Maybe they're called 'house shoes' (after the German) in certain parts of the world where there were a lot of Germans about?

[papayahed]

Wow must be a local thing.

[aliengirl]

Very interesting. Not a single vote for 'house shoes' yet.

[faithosaurus]

slippers for me.

[motherhubbard]

I call them slippers now, but I grew up calling them house shoes. I hadn't thought about that.

[MystyrMystyry]

When I was 15-17 I spent Summers walking barefoot everywhere, and built up really good callouses (and broke my big toes on gutters more times than I care to remember) which had served me well for these decades since

But!

A couple of years ago I came out of a body waterlogging bath dressed in only a towel (hear that ladies?) and something caused me to spin around of a sudden on the nylon carpet - YE-OUCH! - the carpet had snagged the callous and tore it straight down the centre

So slippers and runners have basically been the order of the day hence, and the callous hasn't been open to the world properly to ever reform itself

I post this as a warning - more accidents occur around the house, some infuriating

[Niamh]

slippers. Mine are a warm boot kind.

[Lulim]

Slippers or House Shoes?

Each time I visit this forum, I need to double check because I always read "Slippers or Hores Shoes?" :sosp:

And, answering the question, I call it house shoes (Hausschuhe, that is).