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Claim: Cinderella's slippers were made of fur in the original versions of the fairy tale, but they became glass slippers in later versions as the result of a mistranslation. Stay Warm and Cozy: Perfect for those cold winter nights, these winter slippers for women are designed to keep your feet toasty, no matter the weather outside. Top-Notch Quality: Crafted by Dunlop, a name you can trust. These novelty slippers aren't just about looks; they're built to last, ensuring you get value for your money. DH Green ( Language and History in the Early Germanic World) notes that both Pliny and Tacitus used glaesum/ glesum to refer to amber, despite being aware of the difference in manufacture between it and glass. This conscious confusion was based on the transparency of both materials, and in the competition between products manufactured thereof–native beads and Roman glass objects.

For Every Occasion: Whether you're lounging at home, having a sleepover with friends, or just want to keep your feet warm during winter, these womens animal slippers are your perfect companion. this seems to be a case of erudition run wild. Balzac's and Littré's (a nineteenth-century man of letters, author of an important dictionary), to be precise. They stipulated the verre/vair confusion. But "pantouffles de verre" (though in various spellings) are in Perrault's tale, and also in Catalan, Irish and Scottish versions. The Grimm brothers' has golden slippers -- not much better than glass, I'd think, to dance in all night. Wikipedia tells me that there are over 400 versions from all over the world, the oldest from China. The standard explanation for Cinderella's famous footwear is that it is the result of a mistranslation, someone having mistaken pantoufle de vair, fur slipper, for pantoufle de verre, glass slipper, when making an English version of Charles Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé avec des moralités (1697). (The title of Perrault's collection — in English, Stories or Tales of Olden Times with Morals— also is known as Tales of My Mother Goose, after a line that appears on the frontispiece of the original, Contes de ma mère l'oye.) Warm & Fluffy】Super soft、cozy,made of high-quality coral velvet and sherpa fleece lining.It's so comfortable that make you feel you are walking on the cotton.Protects them from cold,air-conditioned floors in the summer! which can keep your feet warm and help you have a sweet dream during chilly winters. If you need something easy to slip on, you may love slide slippers or scuff slippers. Many slipper styles are designed to keep your toes and feet warm, but if you need even more coverage, a pair of slipper booties may be the right choice for you. All our slippers are designed to provide the maximum level of warmth and comfort, and we use materials to ensure the slippers maintain long-lasting quality.Versatile Sizing: Whether you're a size 3 or 8, there's a snug fit waiting for you. These bedroom slippers womens sizes range from 3/4 UK, 5/6 UK to 7/8 UK, ensuring everyone gets their perfect pair. The first edition of Perrault's stories contained illustrations, but I could not find out if there was any of them displaying Cendrillon/Cinderella 's "pantoufles de verre". Though Hugh Rawson in his "Devious Derivations" (1994)correctly signals that the glass slippers cannot have been born from a mistranslation from French to English, he does not really solve the riddle how "vair" became "verre". My own preferred hypothesis is that Perrault "mis-understood" the oral version of an existing folktale. But who can prove that it was not just a stroke of genius: Perrault sensing that a "glass" slipper had infinitely more poetic potential than the obsolete "fur slipper", and consciously re-shaping this detail? VAIR . n. m. Il se disait autrefois d'une Fourrure blanche et grise. Un manteau, des pantoufles de vair. Specifically, in the Analyse raisonnée de l'histoire de France by François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), a discussion of medieval society says that I'm sympathetic to fr.wikipedia's conclusions that "il faut conserver ces poétiques et merveilleuses pantoufles de verre": "we need to preserve these poetic and marvelous glass slippers." At this point, though, their survival is guaranteed. The small question in front of us is how they were born.

I'm a huge fan of Snopes. And Cinderella's "glass slipper" is one of the most striking and absurdly effective details in the whole history of storytelling. So it's with a heavy heart that I must now register some doubt about Snopes' defense of the glass slipper against the claim that it's actually a linguistic mistake for an original fur slipper: If he meant "vair" "fur" he must either have been a bad speller (very unlikely) or there must have been an eighteenth century orthographic variant for "vair".( Possible but not likely.) Anyway nobody mistranslated "vair" as "glass". It's Perrault himself who writes "verre". It should also be taken into account that in the oldest Chinese version of the story, it was a "golden" slipper. See The principal difficulty with the standard explanation is that pantoufle de verre appears in Perrault's original text, so this is definitely not a question of mistranslation. Nor does it seem to be a case of mishearing, with Perrault writing verre for vair when transcribing an oral account, since vair, a medieval word, was no longer used in his time. ( Vair, variegated fur, from the Latin varius, varied, also is a root of miniver, originally menu vair, small vair, which referred initially to the fur — perhaps squirrel — used as trim on medieval robes and later was applied to the prized ermine, or winter weasel fur, on the ceremonial robes of peers.)Fit For】Fits women shoes Small size 2.5-3.5(UK),5-6(US) ,35-36(EU);Medium size 4-5(UK) ,7-8(US),37-38(EU); Large size 6-7(UK),9-10(US),39-40(EU). Widely Applicable Scenes: Cute style adapted to various occasion, you can wear it at home, out to the garden and so on. You can also feel safe wearing them on wood or tile floors because of the non-slip outsole. You can wear our slipper to enjoy the fun time. Slide your feet into our slippers and enjoy a new slipper wearing experience. Golden suggests both "expensiveness" and "light-reflection". So both "vair" ( expensive ermine-like fur) and "verre" ( glitter) fit the poetic core of this fairy-tale, of which there exists an unending list of variants. Some even Native American.

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