Quote Originally Posted by Jack Daw View Post
The tasseled loafer was popular among we banker-types in the 1990s. I kept wearing mine
And before that, with the high-school crowd of the 1960's. I kept wearing mine, too, until finally the shoe shop declined to re-sole them again.

Nanook, thanks for the NYTimes link. I especially loved "the delicious weirdness of having legions of Frenchmen trying to look like the Phillips Academy class of 1964."