RockDove Women's Emily Indoor Outdoor Moccasin Slippers

Our Story RockDove was created in 2002 for five birdwatchers of the Los Angeles Audubon Society. We were initially a beachside workshop in Santa Monica, California that resoled hiking boots for our local customers. For fifteen years, we protected the feet of avid adventurers as they trekked through the challenging terrains of southern California's mountains and deserts. As their local shoe cobbler, our customers would come to us with their footwear needs. Over time, they asked for something that was badly missing in their lives at home - quality indoor shoes to console their high-mileage, trail-weary feet. So for Christmas that year, we handmade five pairs of slippers for our long-time Audubon customers using a low-cut boot last.

The Experiment Shoe brands in southern California, where sunny beaches and flip flops rule, don't pay much attention to slippers. However, we knew how to make comfortable, long-lasting footwear. Using mattress memory foam, gel insoles, anti-shock cushioning from hiking boots, and more, we designed slippers with the goal of comforting extremely tired feet. Two months later, when we sent out a newsletter about our little experiment, customers responded with 350 mail orders. We named our slippers after the most mundane bird we knew, the rock dove (pigeon) often seen strutting the boardwalks of Santa Monica Pier. They're a memento of where we're from and what we represent.

Inspired by Adventure, Made for the Everyday To this day, our legacy of creating footwear as if for the most exhausted, adventure-wearied feet lives on. But adventure isn't always hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Everyone lives their own version of it, every single day. We make slippers so that anyone who's on their feet all day - not just passionate outdoorsmen but teachers, chefs, nurses, cashiers, traffic cops, postal workers, and more - can count on switching into the world's most comfortable slippers once they get home.

The Sweet Spot Comfort Level Our quest to get comfort down to a science pushed us to become one of the earliest adopters of high-density memory foam in slippers. In 2004, we reached out to local sleep experts at the Long Beach Mattress Company to source their memory foam toppers, which we then molded into insoles. But mattress comfort didn't exactly translate to slipper comfort. So we obsessively tweaked the density and firmness ratings of our foams to create that "sweet spot" level: one that offers incredible comfort, yet not so much cushioning that you'll feel like walking in quicksand. Today, at the heart of each RockDove slipper is a multilayered foam construction - a 40-70D memory foam pressure-mapped to every part of the plantar aspect, a support foam that adds firmness, and an anti-shock EVA layer.

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