Are These Slippers or Shoes?

I have been wearing these, what I think are shoes, for the past week but yesterday I was informed by a very unlikely person that I was indeed wearing slippers.  Okay.  Truth told.  The woman who grooms my cat told me that it looked like I was wearing slippers.  Today I asked Goldberg and he agreed with her.  I could have sworn these were in the regular shoe section when I bought them at DSW.

What do you think?  Shoes?  Slippers?