House Shoes

House shoes! I have some great memories of them in my childhood. Mama wore them all the time. I can still hear the sound of them on the linoleum floor as she walked a bit of grit missed by the incessant broom.

About this time, the Fall, every year I remember the excitement as the big parcel carrying truck stopped outside our little house. (Our house was little...about 700 square feet) ANYWAY... the driver knocked on the door and had a big box from J C Penneys addressed to us.  To me it was like an early Christmas..

Sometimes the box had a new dress for me to wear to school, or new housecoats for both of us, but it always had two pair of house shoes! Mama always ordered pink house shoes for us. I didn't realize they came in any other color. No matter, pink was our favorite color.

Mama's looked a little like those in the picture only the back came up a bit more. The fur around the top was fuzzier. Mine looked like pink fur  baby booties. I loved them. They had a shiny pink satin ribbon on the top. Boy, those things kept us nice and toasty.  (We had a little forced air furnace that kept the house warm...if we kept all the bedroom doors closed. That was probably why we needed to wear the house shoes.)

They were a wonderful invention for us because Mama didn't like for us to wear our shoes in the house. The reasons were probably so they wouldn't wear out as fast and so we wouldn't track in dirt on the carpet.

Yes, I still wear house shoes. Yesterday I was sweeping the kitchen floor and heard that grit hit the vinyl of them and it brought back this memory. We had many happy little memories like this in that little house in our little town.