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the shoe that lets you skip the bothersome ritual of acknowledging your own laces
means A casual slip-on shoe with no laces, or a person who idles and avoids work.
from The verb "loaf" — to lounge about doing nothing — appeared in mid-19th-century American English, with "loafer" for an idler arriving around the same time; it's often linked to German "Landläufer" (vagabond, literally a "land-runner"), though that connection is plausible rather than proven. The shoe came much later: the comfortable slip-on borrowed the lazy man's name in the 20th century, because it's footwear made for putting your feet up rather than rushing anywhere.
- origin
- Norwegian fishing slippers reborn as Ivy League royalty
- penny slot
- Students wedged coins in for emergency payphone calls
- gucci move
- Added a horsebit and charged a fortune in 1953
- the name
- Literally honors doing absolutely nothing in style
bass weejun — iconic penny loafer first produced by g.h. bass in 1936, still manufactured today
gucci loafer — horsebit loafer designed by aldo gucci in 1953, defining luxury shoe