I have always been fascinated, if not by time travel exactly, then at least by imagining how a particular place looked a century or two ago and how it might look in the future. One day I simply picked up a camera and walked around the city centre to capture several Riga streets, buildings, and squares, and later compare them with past photographs found in the Letonika database. I must say, I discovered many interesting details.
I have just read the only novel by the Catalan artist and Surrealist Salvador Dalí, "Hidden Faces" (published in Latvian, 2011). He "paints" every smallest detail in nature, in the expressions of a human face, in associations and in the waking dreams characteristic of the author, using a fine, high-quality brush (so as not to smudge).
Cosy, soft, comfortable, luxurious and refined, warming or cooling to the feet, worn-out or carefully stored only for special guests - everyone has their own beloved house slippers. At home I currently wear a pair crocheted by my mother. Yet I have always been fascinated by Victorian ladies' slippers on an elegant little heel with a vintage rose pattern. In different eras they have served both as practical footwear and as a symbol and part of rituals. So what is the history of house slippers?
My interest in this science or pseudoscience (whichever you prefer) was sparked by a programme on the television channel "24ТЕХНО", where an English phrenologist talked about the history of the theory and briefly introduced its essence. In any case, it is one of the ways for a person to get to know themselves and others, and to understand their predisposition towards one thing or another.
