Brown Suede Platform Slippers
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Brown Suede Platform Mule Slippers with Braided Trim
A closed-toe mule slipper with an open back, a suede upper, a braided red and cream collar round the topline and a dense shearling lining through the footbed.
Braid and shearling are both hand steps, which holds every batch to a size.
The stone corridor, early, in a platform
The corridor of an old house is stone end to end and it carries every step, which is why most indoor shoes sound apologetic in it. A moulded platform with a deep tread does not — it lands flat and square, and the sound is a shoe rather than a slipper. The braided collar runs round the topline where anyone coming the other way sees it.
What changes is the category. A felt sole says you are at home and staying there; a thick platform with a tread says the shoe can go out of the door and back, and that moves it from slipper to shoe in the eye of whoever is looking. Suede on the upper and a braided trim at the top do the rest, because both are finishes nobody puts on something meant to be hidden. The open back is the only thing that gives the game away.
You sound like you are going somewhere.
Suede over a moulded platform
The slipper is closed at the toe and open at the back, with a suede upper and a braided collar stitched round the topline in red and cream. The sole is not a flat felt slipper sole — it is a thick moulded platform with a deep tread cut into it. That is the whole difference in how it behaves on a hard floor.
Inside the footbed is lined with dense shearling, so the foot sits in it rather than on it. The braid at the topline is the detail the hand goes to, raised and stitched down rather than glued, and the suede is soft where the platform underneath is not. The open back means it comes off at the door without bending down.
Upper, collar, lining, platform
- Closed-toe mule slipper with an open back
- Suede upper
- A braided red and cream collar stitched round the topline
- Dense shearling lining through the footbed
- A thick moulded platform with a deep tread
Chestnut, Mustard Seed and Black
The selector holds Chestnut, Mustard Seed and Black. The braided collar reads as trim against the dark one and as a continuation of the upper on the warmer two.
What travels with it
Take more than a single pair in one order and a complimentary gift is included in the parcel, chosen by us and added unprompted.
| Piece | Slippers |
|---|---|
| Material | Suede |
| Inside | Lined |
| Collar | Braided, in red and cream |
| Lining | Dense shearling through the footbed |
| Sole | A thick moulded platform with a deep tread |
| Back | Open |
| Size | 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 |
| Colours | Chestnut, Mustard Seed, Black |
Shearling and braid, cut to a batch
A braided collar has to be made and then stitched round the topline, and the footbed has to be lined with dense shearling before the platform goes on, which is two operations a plain slipper skips. That is what holds a batch to a size. A return of the same batch is not guaranteed.
Pick the colour while all of them are still listed. If the platform is not the height you expected indoors, it goes back unworn and in its original condition.
