{"id":33175,"date":"2020-09-22T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/2020\/09\/22\/the-great-return-of-loafers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:10:57","slug":"the-great-return-of-loafers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/2020\/09\/22\/the-great-return-of-loafers\/","title":{"rendered":"The great return of loafers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You have a serious problem: your feet don’t want to go outside anymore! After months of confinement spent naked on the Persian carpet, it is understandable that they look at your laced shoes with disdain. <\/h3>\n\n

By Rapha\u00ebl Sagodira<\/h4>\n\n

To get your feet to accept the outside world, there might be only one alternative: moccasins. These are laceless, low-cut shoes with a “U” shaped top seam. Lately, the moccasins have the wind in their sails: it is no longer necessary to be elected BCBG of the year<\/em> in Versailles to have some. This success is due to their comfort and adaptability. You can wear loafers with a suit, chino or jeans. <\/p>\n\n

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But do not\nlet this apparent simplicity fool you. It’s a real field\nmined : there are many styles of moccasins. Badly chosen, moccasins\nmake a clumsy foot and give a dejected gait. It is this style of villains\nmoccasins that most populate our cities: in the image of their owner,\nthey are usually old, grey, creaky shoes and a little\nwide. Let’s avoid this pitfall and instead review all your options.<\/p>\n\n

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The first style, the moccasin with a tongue and tray seam, is the best known. This form comes from the mists of time, from the first civilizations of North America: the Alconquins of Quebec. In the 30s, Canadians and Americans adopted them thanks to Nils Gregoriusson Tveranger. He invents a shoe that borrows Amerindian elements that he mixes with traditional shoes from Norway, the country from which he comes. This results in the tongue and tray seam shape. This model is first the specialty of the shoe maker Bass, under the name of Wejuuns<\/em> – to better sound northern European. You didn’t know this name? The fault of the WASPS students of the Ivy League who wore them massively after the war and renamed them “Penny Loafer<\/em>“: they slipped pennies<\/em> into the tongue of the moccasins, to keep the change of the phone booths! <\/p>\n\n

80’s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Very\nIn fashion in the eighties, the end of the line was Weston’s:\nwas the 180. In 1985, the round, wide, “crocodile<\/em>” 180s were all the rage. With a suit\ngrey crossbred in “shark skin” color, it was the ideal outfit\npermanent businessmen with long teeth… A whole era! From our\ndays, this model gives the deliciously old-fashioned look of a man in early retirement.\n<\/p>\n\n

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Second alternative: tassel loafers. They\nare generally burgundy, round, wide, thick, without tongue but with tassels\nbraided. The most famous model? The Alden shoes It is done\nin horse leather, the cordovan. Ideal for weekends, it is the most popular moccasin\nmore fashionable nowadays. Your Brittany spaniel loves to chew on them\ntassels.<\/p>\n\n

The baroque genre at the feet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The third alternative, which appeared in the 1950s, but\nespecially in the seventies and eighties. This model is free of\ntongue, without tassels or tray seam. Mounted on a thin sole, it\nis rather pointed and is decorated with two horse bits in reduction, gilded or\nsilver: it is the moccasin of Gucci. It gives a baroque style to the\nfeet. Nowadays, this form is exclusively worn by people who are very\ndistinguished: those who invite you to dinner to show you their\nexpensive apartment and explain to you in percentages the\nof their annual increase, before serving you a half aperitif\ntepid. <\/p>\n\n

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The latest evolution: it is the most evolved form of\nloafers, which appeared in the early 2000s. It is the Lupin of the bootmaker\nAubercy. Sharp, with an eagle tip, the Lupin is a very versatile moccasin.\ndressed. Thus, it leaves the register of casual shoes. It is the only one\nmoccasin that can be worn with a city suit without looking like a\nnerd. The Lupin is a moccasin whose tongue is shaped like a\nmask; it is accompanied by a hand-sewn tray seam, which draws\nalmost the little satisfied smile of a playboy leaning at the bar. This is not the\nmoccasin of the men who go home for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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