Loafers

[aportnoy]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

Credt where credit is due. How did you come across the style? Have you, you know, actually worn them?

Thanks. Just got them yesterday via Tom Park in Hawaii. Weather permitting, I will be breaking them in this weekend.

I believe I first saw the style at Paul Stuart when they carried EG in the 80s.

My New Year's resolution is to break in at least one pair of new shoes per week.

 

[Spirit of 69]

What you need is what we were wearing back in the day with our cropped hair, Crombies, tonic suits and Ben Sherman shirts, namely, a pair of oxblood Bass Weejun penny loafers.
http://www.barrieshoes.com/bass/imag...y_n731_pic.jpg

Nothing else will do!

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba

i like these as much as the preppy ones i posted above.

Neither are preppy. Actual preppy loafers in real life (those weak of stomach, avert your eyes):

Horsebit Guccis, either polished and pristine or destroyed:

Made in Maine Weejuns, handsewn moccasin fronts unlike those Anglo loafers that you posted, same dilio:

Please, in either case: no socks.

The US-made Weejuns are history, but Paul Stuart carries a true moccasin front penny in shell, reputedly made in Maine:



The Alden and Alden for BB shell LHS's are nice, but are false moccasins done in the English style, like the Lobb Lopez. A penny done with a false moccasin front is a tad more urbane, more redcoat, more Wildsmith, less apple pie.

I think that the Norwegian originals are still made...but I have never seen a human being wearing one.


- B

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by TC (Houston)

That's a bold statement.

There's more than a passing resemblance. Neither knows what it wants to be.

 

[Spirit of 69]

Q: How did the American style of no socks with loafers evolve?

 

[Spirit of 69]

Ugly car, ugly sho..boo...slip...footwear!

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

I'm pretty sure that I had rabbit that day. - B
Oh Noe!

 

[tonylumpkin]

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba

My favorite, thus far, whose are they?

 

[TC (Houston)]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

There's more than a passing resemblance. Neither knows what it wants to be.


I thought it was a great analogy.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Spirit of 69

Q: How did the American style of no socks with loafers evolve?

The American contribution to both the glory and decline of male dress during the past century has been in leading the casualization of clothes. Examples:

- The lounge/sack suit replacing more formal forms of daywear.

- Black tie replacing white tie.

- SB suits without vests.

And so on.

As for going sockless, I do not know, but when I don't know, I find it useful to blame Southerners.


- B

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

There's more than a passing resemblance. Neither knows what it wants to be.

Fantastic car. Fantastic shoe.


- B

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by aportnoy

Thanks. Just got them yesterday via Tom Park in Hawaii. Weather permitting, I will be breaking them in this weekend. I believe I first saw the style at Paul Stuart when they carried EG in the 80s.
Very stylish and somewhat unique whilst still maintaining a lot of classic elements.

Originally Posted by aportnoy

My New Year's resolution is to break in at least one pair of new shoes per week.
This should be your new decade resolution

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

The American contribution to both the glory and decline of male dress during the past century has been in leading the casualization of clothes. Examples:

- The lounge/sack suit replacing more formal forms of daywear.

- Black tie replacing white tie.

- SB suits without vests.

And so on.

As for going sockless, I do not know, but when I don't know, I find it useful to blame Southerners.

Would you say that the apex of American style was just a point along a parabolic curve inevitably headed downward?

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Fantastic car. Fantastic shoe.

If your eyes are closed.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by chorse123

Not the easiest shoe to find RTW. Ralph Lauren has an EG pair called the Eden. I don't like it.

I like them best brogued, in suede.
they do look like a chopped chelsea boot. Hardly hideous but theyre better for mod kind of clothing like a mohair suit or jacket; even a velvet jacket.