text: I had a pair of these for so long - maybe 25 years.  I kept them by my back door and wore them in the garden and anything else I did outside.  I don't wear shoes in the house and these are so easy to slip on when I go out.  I also wore them to go out when it was raining.  And then the top of one of them cracked.  I couldn't imagine not having these shoes - they are so useful, so comfortable.  When I found them here I was thrilled, ordered them, and was thrilled again when they were just like my old ones.