More and more I am convinced that Europeans and Americans are more barbarians than we. Foreigners are infinitely affected by the fact that in Russia it is necessary to get up at the entrance to the apartment - as we wonder why they are considered to be normal to walk around the house in street shoes.
Nowhere they are worn - in Europe, people walk through the house barefoot; In America, you can go to the house in street shoes. But only a Russian man, coming home, remove shoes in the hallway and put on slippers.
Funny foreigners write about slippers.
- In the house of the Russians, everyone must wear slippers. Trying to go to street shoes - you "savage". Barefoot - you "savage". In the socks - you are "socks".
- In Russia, for some reason it is unacceptable to walk around the house in socks. The owner of the apartment where I lived was Babushka, who every time, seeing me in socks after jogging, caused: "What are you doing! You are blurred!" As a result, I now and at home in America feel strange in socks or barefoot - as if I do some terrible mistake.
In Germany, many prefer to walk around the house in socks, because the legs are "spacious," and they rest. In many German houses heated floors, so there are practically no sneakers. If a person goes to visit, it is never regenerated. On the streets purely, and people directly from the car are sent to the liking closer.
In Spain and Italy, people do not go home, home slippers are not worn there. On the streets purely, the shoes for every day are comfortable, women on heels almost do not go, protect their feet. If on the street of bad weather, then shoes take off the threshold and go home in socks.
In France, shoes in the house also not taken to remove. In winter, the French apartments are very cold, heating is expensive, and they rarely include it. In street shoes feet warmer. Any French can lie on the sofa in the shoes and spend in this position all evening.
In Russia, slippers appeared during the reign of Peter I. In the home shoes it was nice to sit at the fireplace in the company Chad and households. Particularly coquettes were slippers for ladies. They were decorated with embroidery and precious stones, broken off fur. Dear, richly decorated sneakers were considered a good gift. In poor families, slippers were easier.
The cult of slippers has been reborn already in the post-war time, when many residents of the USSR began to move to cities. Slippers again acquired the importance of home comfort. However, the comfort often hid the desire to keep clean Turkish carpet and Finnish parquet in cleanliness. If guests came to the house, in many apartments there were always unnecessary pairs of slippers, especially for visitors. Sometimes the popularity of slippers was so high that they became a scarce product, especially imported slippers.
We would try to be like in shoes, after the Moscow slush, I would have looked at them. On the other hand, it's nice that we have a culture culture culture.
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