Honorable Mentions
{Photograph}: Rothy’s
Rothy’s the Males Slipper for $149: Made with a mixture of three plastic bottles and Accountable Wool Normal-certified merino wool, Rothy’s slippers are delightfully heat whereas providing sufficient traction within the gum outsole to Get Stuff Finished™. They’re a comfortable match, and I just like the fluffy sherpa lining to guard the again of my heel. I wouldn’t put on these outdoors, however should you do by accident step out as a result of they only really feel so dang good (as I’ve), you possibly can toss them within the wash to scrub them (simply allow them to air dry). —Julian Chokkattu
Goal Ladies’s Cozy Fleece Excessive-Minimize Pull-On Slipper Socks with Grippers for $9: After discovering these from Goal, I refuse to put on some other slippers. They’re light-weight, cowl my toes fully (like socks), and have grips on the backside to stop unintentional slipping and sliding on laborious surfaces. Since they’re additionally tremendous inexpensive, I personal a number of pairs—I preserve a pair at my condo, my boyfriend’s, and my dad or mum’s home. Relying on how typically you put on them, they’ll get soiled pretty rapidly (primarily as a result of all the things sticks to the fleece), however all it’s important to do is throw them within the washer and so they’ll look pretty much as good as new. —Brenda Stolyar
Manitobah Fake Fur Road Suede Moccasins for $100: As a child, I used to be seldom and not using a pair of moccasins. My grandma acquired them for all of the grandkids yearly at Christmas, and I wore them all over the place. The gentle, snug indoor-outdoor shoe was simply an on a regular basis a part of life. As I acquired to center faculty I gave in to social stress and my want to be as incognito as doable, and regularly moved away from sporting or doing something visibly Indigenous, something visibly Mexican.
After my grandma’s demise, I got down to discover a new pair of moccasins related in model to those she acquired us as children, and I found to Manitobah. That is an Indigenous-owned model staffed with Indigenous designers, and its slippers, cabin clogs, boots, and moccasins are all of impeccable high quality. The road moccasins are like little clouds you possibly can slip your toes into and put on wherever, embellished with beaded designs identical to those my grandma used to get us. Manitobah additionally has a small market web page with distinctive designs. —Jaina Rodriguez Gray