Slip-on shoe
A loafer is a slip shoe with a heel. The best-known model is the penny loafer (also called College Shoe ). Moccasins are not among the loafers, as they have no heel.
In general, the loafer is also Slipper ( Germany ), Slip-on ( England) or panties ( Austria and Switzerland ) called.
Historical
The first loafer was created around 1910 in America, while it was the model that is now called penny loafer. The firm bass made for a distribution of this model by introducing it in the 1930s in the universities, where it quickly became the classic shoe of the Ivy League and its current model name was (allegedly put their students a penny for good luck in the recess the shaft bridge over the instep ). Sebago (also a U.S. manufacturer ) came with its own Pennyloafermodell ( Beefroll ) in the mid 1940s on the market. In the 1950s, the Italian-built loafers were known and were hesitant distribution. In the same decade provided the U.S. firm Alden tassel loafers in front of her. In the following decade the Gucci loafers became known for his miniature snaffle on the instep and respected figures showed themselves in public with loafers on his feet. As the loafer therefore had general acceptance, it was rebuilt by renowned British shoe manufacturers in Goodyear-welted construction, which he, however, was deprived of his typical ease and flexibility.
Style and models
The Loafer is a unisex shoe and applies to men as a formal footwear, as it is cut deeper than a normal shoe. The acceptance of this shoe model in business is different and also depends on the respective industry. One hand, it depends on the country ( in America and in Italy, the loafer is generally accepted, and in England and Germany comes to him with skepticism ), on the other hand of the shoe color (black is accepted rather for business events, whereas browns leisure time without notice).
Classic loafers are normally made shoes ( seam on the front shoe on the insole visible) in Mokassinmachart. Accordingly loafers are light and flexible shoes which are preferably worn in warm, dry weather.
He is regarded as a development of moccasins and, as in this type of shoe, the shank passes under the foot along and is closed at its top with the blade insert. Unlike a moccasin but the loafer has a sole and a heel.
Known Loafermodelle are the ...
- Penny loafer ( transverse slot in the shank bridge over the instep )
- Tassel loafers ( to approaching tunneled and expiring on the forefoot in decorative tassels grandson)
- Lasch slippers or - as slipper variant - also known as Prince Albert Slipper ( high reaching to the instep shank with a single seam at the heel )
- Called Zugloafer also Elasticloafer ( with elastic band insert at the side of the instep )