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    What are penny loafers (I'd like a description, please) and why are they so called?

    Question #37066. Asked by MaggieG 5. (Aug 03 03 2:58 PM)


    McGruff

    		Penny loafers are a casual slip-on style shoe made of leather. They have a band across the top of the foot with a slit in it and as kids, we used to tuck a penny in there. Here's a picture: http://www.landsend.com/cd/fp/prod/0,1467,1_2_1931_349_58303_40955_5:view=253,00.html?sid=8532067686940108050 I'm still looking to see if that is why they are called Penny loafers, or if that was their name to begin with.

    Aug 03 03, 3:19 PM
    McGruff

    		The Norwegian Peasant Slip-on (or weejun) was first imported to the US by tourists in the 1930s and later Gucci made a leather loafer in refined calfskin with a metal snaffle bit across the instep. Soon loafers were available in the spectator style (two colours). By the 50s Penny Loafers were all the rage with the campus Ivy League of the US. Made in ox blood they were also
    known as the Norwegian slipper. http://www.podiatry.curtin.edu.au/shoo.html

    Aug 03 03, 3:50 PM

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