Finish the quote

Anonymous wrote:OMG, look at this guy. Steampunk with his sockless, bowed loafers. Run, ladies!!

“From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the…”

Gross

Anonymous wrote:They’re from the 18th century.

You kids are just proudly displaying your lack of knowledge about history and fashion, and your lack of sophistication.

Nothing like arrogant Dunning-Krugers with strong opinions who are mean to their friends. What a group you are.

No they are not.

I studied fashion history.

Aristocratic men in the 1800s wore leather boots, lace up leather ankle boots, leather lacd up oxfords, and fancy, solid shoes with decorations and heels.

They only wore slippers as slippers, indoor, at home, when no one was around but family and servants, to keep their feet warm in cold poorly heated houses.

No aristotic men from the 1800s are walking around outside their homes in velvet slippers, unless their house happened to catch on fire at night and they had to quickly escape.

You can do some research if you don't believe me. You don't have to be in the fashion industry like me to find this information. There are plenty of historical documents out there, including print advertisements and fashion publications from that era, as well a copious examples at fashion museums and exhibits.

Anonymous wrote:OMG, look at this guy. Steampunk with his sockless, bowed loafers. Run, ladies!!

Anonymous wrote:
I’m not the target market, but yeah, they’ve been around a long time and British Aristocracy made them famous. Long before Hugh Hefner.

No.

That look in public is from the fashion tragedy of the Hugh Heffner/Austin Powers era of mens clothing.

I guess to a 20 year old tiktok influencer, that era and Austin Powers would be considered "old world british aristocracy" but reallt, it is just baby boomer swingers fashion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, look at this guy. Steampunk with his sockless, bowed loafers. Run, ladies!!

It looks like a costume.

Austin Powers meets 2020 man bun.

Anonymous wrote:OMG, look at this guy. Steampunk with his sockless, bowed loafers. Run, ladies!!

It looks like a costume.

Anonymous wrote:
I’m not the target market, but yeah, they’ve been around a long time and British Aristocracy made them famous. Long before Hugh Hefner.

Just because tiktok says so does not make it true.

The 18th century english people wore stockings with their shoes. Woolen for the masses, and silk for the aristocracy.

No one but the poors went sockless

Anonymous wrote:OMG, look at this guy. Steampunk with his sockless, bowed loafers. Run, ladies!!

I can smell his sockless feet through the screen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re from the 18th century.

You kids are just proudly displaying your lack of knowledge about history and fashion, and your lack of sophistication.

Nothing like arrogant Dunning-Krugers with strong opinions who are mean to their friends. What a group you are.

In the 18th century, no one, anywhere, and certainly not wealthy people, would have worn velvet bed slippers anywhere outside of their private residences. The only people going without stockings (ie sockless) in the 18th century were the extremely poor people who didn't have money to buy shoes.

+100
Love the PP and her "lack of knowledge" lecture!

OMG, look at this guy. Steampunk with his sockless, bowed loafers. Run, ladies!!

Anonymous wrote:They’re from the 18th century.

You kids are just proudly displaying your lack of knowledge about history and fashion, and your lack of sophistication.

Nothing like arrogant Dunning-Krugers with strong opinions who are mean to their friends. What a group you are.

Oh, yay! It's the Dunning-Kruger poster, here to lecture us all on how "unsophisticated" we are because we have pointed out how ridiculous men in sockless velvet slippers look. Must have touched a nerve.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the weirdest fashion thread ever. Half of you don’t seem to actually be interested in it.

The “smoking loafer” has always been a thing. Like for hundreds of years.

Yes.

At home.

For after dinner cognacs in front of the fire.

Not in public at a formal event, unless that event happens to involve Hugh Heffner or the Doc from the Love Boat.

Definitely not for a wedding where you will have those pictures for eternity.

+1
The twits wearing these "smoking loafers" as formal wear are very clearly trying to cosplay some sort of aristocratic elegance - and failing miserably. It's just so cringeworthy and embarrassing.

Anonymous wrote:They’re from the 18th century.

You kids are just proudly displaying your lack of knowledge about history and fashion, and your lack of sophistication.

Nothing like arrogant Dunning-Krugers with strong opinions who are mean to their friends. What a group you are.

Ahoy ahoy! Jolly Good! And do not even get me started on powdered whigs, govnuh!"