Stubbs & Wootton: WASPy and wonderful

November 6, 1:21 PMLuxury Fashion Scene ExaminerMary Carroll Wininger

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Inside the Stubbs & Wootton boutique. Image via fashionweekdaily.com

Stubbs & Wootton is the sort of brand that does not want to be all things to all people. Originating in New York circa 1993, Stubbs & Wootton has reliably churned out pair after pair of handcrafted, ergonomic, beautifully made bedroom slippers, useful for padding around the house or wearing out on the town. The point is, the only thing Stubbs & Wootton has ever created and produced are slippers. No coordinating pajama sets, no perfumes conceived by focus groups, no compilation albums featuring deep house remixes. Just slippers. Perfect, WASPy, simple. 

Stubbs & Wootton offers a wide variety, however, in the way of slipper designs: five different shapes (Classic slipper, UK slipper, mule, etc) and a holy multitude of images and patterns. Men's slippers feature noble sentiments - the letters HO embroidered on one shoe and PE on another of navy blue velvet - and more earthly attitudes - an image of a screw and the letter U on slippers of black velvet. For men who like to unwind by reading in front of a fireplace and listening to NPR, there are Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. For those who enjoy collecting bailout money, there are red devils with pitchforks. And for those who subscribe to Garden & Gun, and feel their patriotism could only ever be pried from their cold dead hands, there are mighty eagles on moss green velvet. (All men's slippers are $395.)

Women's slippers are equally as chic/deranged ($375). If you know a woman who enjoys herbally enhancing her mood, slippers with cannabis leaves will make a great hostess gift. (If nothing else, when she wears them to a party, they will help guests understand why she keeps trying to describe all her ideas.) More conservative ladies will enjoy pink poodles on grey flannel, low-key types will favor palm trees. For design enthusiasts, there is a camouflage pattern rendered as a metallic tapestry. Very elegant.    

The boutique on Madison Avenue is spacious and clean. Sales associates are chatty.