Loafing Around The House In Sustainable, Biodegradable, Freshly Baked Bread Slippers!

Besides seeing evidence of the holidays in every nook and cranny of each store we peruse, there are other tell-tale signs of the season, such as wooly sweaters, outerwear and, drum roll please....slippers, slippers everywhere!!

Despite being a hot-blooded man myself, I've never understood how anyone could pad through their home in the dead of winter using just their bare feet.

As a pet owner and easily distracted/perpetually frustrated vacuumer, I like the extra protection that socks and slippers can afford my frosty feet and as you can imagine, I end up giving my slippers a really good workout during the year.

How stores instinctually know that I am in the market for a new pair of foot warmers around this time is a feat of sheer magic or inexplicable telepathy.

Yes, as a green consumer, I like the idea of seeking out footwear that is as easy on the planet as possible, but Da Da Da Studio's take on biodegradable and sustainable slippers has got me wondering what kind of insanity is percolating behind the scenes in their designer's workshop.

Their line of freshly baked slippers -- while wildly original, rustic and presumably toothsome, to boot -- are not exactly practical if you share your quarters with housepets or errant rodents who shake down your home for midnight snacks any opportunity that they can get!

Speaking from personal experience, I have a diabetic cat who -- as soon as the lights go out -- covertly breaks into cupboards in search of anything remotely edible, including dry pasta, corn flakes and rolled oats, so I'm absolutely certain that if I dared to purchase a pair of Da Da Da Studio's yeasty household scuffs, they'd literally be toast (pun definitely intended) in under 5 minutes flat.

I'd also end up with a blood-sugar-spiked feline convulsing on the floor...although if he plowed through the brown bread shoes depicted above (rather than their French bread or soft white Challah versions), at least the whole grains might offset his diabetic episode just a wee bit...but I digress.

With that being said, their 62 Euro adult shoes (priced at WHAT, ARE YOU KIDDING?!!? $92 US Dollars) and the vastly more affordable kiddie slippers (priced at 22 Euros/$33 US Dollars) are -- get ready for this -- "not wearable on feet...first in fashion...for interesting lifestyle...needs no pressing...dries itself..." according to Da Da Da Studio's website.

Furthermore, an astounding 3 of their 6 styles are SOLD OUT, meaning that several consumers out there in internet land willingly paid the equivalent of $104 US Dollars (including shipping) for stale bread that they can't even wear on their feet while they step outside to fetch the daily paper every morning.

Despite their heavy carbon footprint courtesy of a European birthplace, the good news is that the truly green consumer who willingly torches one hundred smackers on this inexplicably pointless piece of pseudo-footwear can always redeem their eco-friendly badge by pulverizing the hollowed out loaves into breadcrumbs which they can use to help indigenous populations of wildbirds thrive during the winter months.

What do you make of these slippers -- would you purchase them as a gag gift for the holidays? Could you even justify the humor and conveniently forget about the CO2 price tag?