Editing Slipper (section)

==History==
The recorded history of slippers can be traced back to the 12th century.<ref>
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{{cite book
|last1= Snodgrass
|first1= Mary Ellen
|title= World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence
|chapter= Slippers: Slippers in History
|date= 17 March 2015
|access-date= 24 April 2024
|publisher= Routledge
|isbn= 978-1-317-45167-9
|page= 532 
|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gO9nBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA532
|language= en
|quote= Ancient Athenians imported Laconian slippers from Sparta or Asian slip-ons from Persia. [...] Roman women wore {{lang | la | socci}} (slippers) indoors and for assignations. [...] After 449, Anglo-Saxon grooms received their brides' 'slype-scoes' (slip-shoes) from their fathers-in-law as symbols of protection and female control. [...] Trends continued to offer new sensations, as with the Italian {{lang | it | pianella}} (wedge mule) and the {{lang | it | scarpetta}} (slipper) of the late 1300s made in the same fabric as an ensemble. In contrast to the stride of the booted male, women adjusted their gait to suit the slipper, an emblem of femininity.
}}
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In the [[Western world |West]], the record can be traced only to 1478.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://betsyblue.co.uk/blogs/news/9037635-history-of-the-slipper |title= History of the Slipper |date= September 10, 2013 |website= betsyblue.co.uk |access-date= 2020-03-01 |archive-date= 2017-09-22 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170922100857/https://betsyblue.co.uk/blogs/news/9037635-history-of-the-slipper |url-status= dead | quote = The earliest recorded reference to the slipper was is[sic] in the 12th Century by a Southern Song Dynasty Officer where he describes two types of slipper he saw in what is now Vietnam. [...] In the West, slippers were first recorded around 1478.}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2024}}<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.iinuu.eu/en/wisdom/good-to-know/slipper-history|title= Slipper History |date= September 9, 2010|website= iinuu.eu|access-date= 2020-03-01}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=April 2024}} The English word ''slippers'' (''sclyppers'') occurs from about 1478.<ref>
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English speakers formerly also used the related term ''{{linktext|pantofles}}'' (from the French word {{lang | fr | pantoufle}}).

[[File:2016 Singapur, Downtown Core, Muzeum Cywilizacji Azjatyckich, Ekspozycja (067) (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Peranakan]] Chinese wedding slippers from the late 19th century]]

Slippers in [[China]] date from 4700 BC;{{Dubious|reason=4700 BC, deep into prehistory and the Neolithic, would be extremely early, earlier than the [[Areni-1 shoe]] and other finds from the cave. Well-preserved archaeological finds that old from organic material, such as shoes, would be a sensation. Also, was cotton really used that early in China?|date=June 2024}} they were made of cotton or woven rush, had leather linings, and featured symbols of power, such as dragons.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Snodgrass |first1= Mary Ellen |title= World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence 
|date= 17 March 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-45167-9 |page=532 
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gO9nBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA532|language= en | quote = In China as early as 4700 B.C.E,, court robes and cotton or woven rush slippers sported leather linings and embroidered dragon-and-phoenix designs as emblems of power.}}</ref> 

Native American moccasins were also highly decorative. Such moccasins depicted nature scenes and were embellished with [[beadwork]] and fringing; their soft sure-footedness made them suitable for indoors appropriation. Inuit and Aleut people made shoes from smoked hare-hide to protect their feet against the frozen ground inside their homes.<ref>
{{Cite web|title= The history of the slipper |url= https://www.ernestjournal.co.uk/blog/2017/8/14/the-history-of-the-slipper |access-date= 2022-03-30 |website= Ernest journal |date= 14 August 2017 |language= en-GB | quote = Inuit and Aleut people would make shoes from smoked hare hide to protect their feet against the frozen ground inside their homes.}}
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Fashionable [[Orientalism]] saw the introduction into the West of designs like the {{linktext|baboosh}}.

[[Victorian era|Victorian]] people needed such shoes to keep dust and gravel outside their homes.<ref>{{Cite web |title= The history of the slipper |url= https://www.ernestjournal.co.uk/blog/2017/8/14/the-history-of-the-slipper |access-date= 2022-03-30 |website= Ernest journal |date= 14 August 2017 |language = en-GB | quote =  [...] the discerning Victorian gentleman was in need of a pair of 'house shoes' in order to keep the dust and gravel outside – much better than ruining his expensive rug and beautifully polished floor.}}</ref> For [[Victorian era| Victorian]] ladies, slippers gave an opportunity to show off their needlepoint skills and to use embroidery as decoration.<ref>
{{Cite web|title= The history of the slipper |url= https://www.ernestjournal.co.uk/blog/2017/8/14/the-history-of-the-slipper |access-date= 2022-03-30 |website= Ernest journal |date= 14 August 2017 |language= en-GB | quote = Embroidered slippers presented Victorian ladies (on both sides of the Atlantic) with an opportunity to show off their needlepoint skills.}}
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