Ingrid Nilsen, former YouTuber and co-founder of The New Savant, is also a fan of Franco Sarto. These loafers were gifted to her - whenever she wears them, Milliner-Waddell says that “no one ever believes they’re from DSW and Franco Sarto.” Unlike other pairs that gap on the sides - she blames her wide feet - the Jacks don’t.
Strategist associate editor Jenna Milliner-Waddell admits she was never fond of Franco Sarto as a kid when “my mom wanted me to buy church or school shoes from them,” but now she thinks the brand is fairly underrated. Sizes: 5–11 with half-sizes | Style: Kiltie | Material: Patent faux leather, rubber sole | Embellishments: Tassels, fringe, lug soleįranco Sarto came up almost as many times as Bass did in our research. Nikki Kule, founder and creative director of KULE, appreciates that “they don’t give you those painful blisters when you first wear them.” (Note that if you don’t love a leather sole, there’s also an “easy” version of the Whitneys that comes recommended by Lauren Valenti, senior beauty editor at Vogue - they are almost exactly the same but have a rubber sole rather than a leather one.) Schwartz describes them as “peak Ivy League, ‘Walcott’-by-Vampire-Weekend, tennis-lessons-on-the-weekends loafers.” These have “an aura powerful enough that they turn anything I wear into prep cosplay,” Schwartz adds. Reid constantly gets compliments and questions about where they’re from - once, a former New York photo editor confused them for Celine. Two past and present Strategist writers, Hilary Reid and Erin Schwartz, consider them classics. The cult-favorite Bass Whitney Weejun earned the title of “most mentioned.” (Important: Gwyneth Paltrow kept hers from her turn as Margot in The Royal Tenenbaums.) The penny-loafer style features beefroll stitching, giving it a bit more heft than regular stitching. Sizes: 5–11 with half-sizes | Style: Penny | Material: Polished leather, leather sole | Embellishments: Beefroll stitching And lastly, there’s the lug sole, which is a raised rubber sole that has deep grooves to provide better traction - or just add a more pop-punk vibe to your shoe. The horsebit loafer also has a decorative piece on the vamp, but it’s a metal buckle (that doesn’t actually buckle anything) instead of fringe this is one of the more formal shoes of the bunch, whereas driving and slipper loafers are the most casual, featuring soft, moldable materials. If you like the tassels but not the fringe, an aptly named tassel loafer is just that. It can also feature a bow with tassels on top of the fringe for a more ornate look. Similarly, the fairly divisive, grandfather-looking kiltie loafer is defined by cut-leather fringe hanging over the vamp of the shoe. This strap with a small hole in the center (big enough for a penny, as these Miu Mius show) comes in two different versions itself it can be stitched over the vamp to the side of the shoe for a clean look or rolled underneath, turning it into a beef-roll penny loafer (because of its resemblance to a beef roll you’d find in a butcher’s shop). The first detail to look for is a penny strap, which is signature to, as you probably guessed, the penny loafer. But each pair, depending on the style, features little details that sets it apart. Sometimes, the material of the sole wasn’t listed - but when it was, I included that information. But overall, it’s a pretty good rule of thumb.
There are exceptions to this observation how long a shoe lasts also varies depending on how often you wear it and what conditions you’re wearing it in. With that in mind, a fully leather shoe will also cost more, since it’s more expensive to construct. A rubber sole tends to wear down more quickly (it can also feel slippery, until it’s slightly scuffed up), whereas leather, with proper maintenance, will probably last a bit longer. A rubber sole versus leather will fit and feel completely different. But because we know there are lots of different preferences when it comes to leather - suede, patent, matte, polished - we broke it down by specifics, even noting which are real versus fake leather so you get all the details. Leather (or faux leather, which is basically just synthetic materials like plastic, if you’d like to get technical) is a catchall term for what most loafers are made of.
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