Are my vintage tapestry shoes that bad?

[LauraSaidIShouldBeNicer]

I was in the charity shop today and found these I absolutely love them think they are super cute. I know some might find them awful but are they that bad?

They are vintage St Micheals (is that marks and Spencer) and made in England. Haven't got a clue how old they are but they are unworn and we're a bargain.

They are slippers OP. Back in the day 'older ladies' slippers had little heels - because, you know, they were meant to be pretty and feminine at all times.

I'd agree they're Marks and Spencer from the 80's perhaps - my nan and great aunts always wore these types of slippers.

I'm glad you're happy with your vintage find and i hate to rain on your parade, but they're old-lady slippers. Enjoy them, but don't wear them outside unless you want folk wondering if you realise you've gone out wearing your slippers.

They are slippers.

Do slippers have a heel no one's going to see the inside when my feet are in them

Google images suggests that having a small heel is a thing for tapestry slippers so might be best to keep them for inside the house

They are definitely slippers - my Nan had a pair in the early 90s.

I remember old ladies wearing them.

Slippers.

When you said tapestry, I was thinking more along the lines of Bayeux That would be special, though I suppose you'd have to have feet like Sideshow Bob.

I think it depends what you wear them with. Black skinny jeans and a leather biker jacket might work (mind you, I said might). Laura Ashley floral dress from the 1980s not so much.

They’re brilliant. If I had seen them in the charity shop I would have bought t m and worn them as shoes! Maybe with a denim dungaree dress! Good find OP

@LauraSaidIShouldBeNicer

Do slippers have a heel no one's going to see the inside when my feet are in them

Yes, some do. Those slip on ones with furry stuff on used to have a kitten heel.

They'd be ok as ballet pumps but the heels add about 30 years onto them

Those look like slippers my Nan had, so I wouldn't buy them. But if you're happy with them, who cares what other people think. They're probably very comfortable.

Definitely slippers! They're dreadful, but if you like them go for it

Haha I can belive they are slippers I am often called an old lady in my tastes funnily enough am wearing a Laura Ashley dress today definitely not from the eighties though.

I think they used to be called house shoes back in the day.
Posh ladies didn’t want to be caught in slippers, so they wore these.

Are my vintage tapestry shoes that bad?

Aye

Old ladies used to wear slippers with small heels because their calf muscles had shortened due to decades of heel wearing and they found it painful to wear flats.

They are brutal.

I will prob wear them with leggings and oversized jumpers or PJs.

Please only wear them with black jeans/dress

Please not with ‘cutesy’ vintage style dresses

Please

My MIL refuses to wear flat slippers, she must wear a heel at all times.
Definitely slippers.

They are slippers!

Excellent. Enjoy them, OP.

In the spirit of the times, they are whatever you say they are.

To be fair, I have no problems with Laura Ashley dresses, recent or vintage! Just probably not with those slippers