About 30 years ago I worked as a computer contractor for a large law firm, and often when I went to do some programming work I noticed that some of the paralegals, who spent 9+ hours on their feet walking around with arms full of legal briefs, survived the hot summers and stress on their feet by wearing spandex ballet-type slippers.
I fell in love with the idea. I got some of my own, and liked the feel so much I even wore them out of the house (which turned out to be a bad idea, because Isotoners are ridiculously expensive and not really made for use on concrete sidewalks and dirt or gravel driveways). I didn't even care what people thought of them; that was before I scurried into the closet and locked the door behind me. The only time I got ribbed for wearing them was when I wore them for the long commute and only realized when I got to the office that I had forgotten to bring my office shoes to change into before I got out of the car.
Now I'm at the age and weight where it's impossible for me to find those slippers in a size that fits comfortably -- especially when my chronic edema has my feet swollen to twice their size. But I still wear the largest ones I can find, and count on the stretch of the spandex to get them on over my enormous Hobbit feet.
any higher and I struggle to walk.
For comfort I tend to wear Camel Active ballerinas (800.70.01) which are great round the house as well as out as they have a soft rubber sole. I liked them so much that I got them in three colours, cream, wine and denim.
