There’s something happening with loafers.
First, there was the so-called “post-sneaker moment,” where men who’d previously lived in Stan Smiths began chucking off their trainers in favor of chunky penny or bit loafers with thick lugged soles. Around the same time, a post-pandemic return to tailoring witnessed men suiting up not in laced oxfords, but rather sleek, sophisticated slip-ons that spurned adornment in favor of sexy minimalism.
I bear no ill will…

