Perhaps you'll get a vague admission that, well yes, if you must know, sometimes, in the privacy of their own home, they do wear slippers.

Obviously, there are some people who don't wear slippers and who walk around the house barefoot.

One primary school has, however, decreed that its pupils may wear slippers in class and the teachers say that behaviour has improved as a result.

Patients may also be advised to wear slippers or socks at all times, and themselves physically isolated from others.

So he was allowed to wear slippers.