It was a question that begged to be asked after President Trump announced on Sunday that he had ordered the Minister of Finance, Scott Bessent, to stop mulping pennies: what would the Penny Loafer be?
Although it is unclear whether Mr. Trump’s presidential powers allow him to stop the production of money, according to the Current of the United States, that authority is based on the efforts of the efforts have resulted in the currency From 1 cent to abolish, those opponents have Said is worth less than the costs to produce it.
In the course of the decades, De Penny borrowed its name to various elements of American culture: Penny Candy, for example, or Penny Arcades with their Penny slot machines. But a few, or no, have been more sustainable than the Penny Loafer, who was inextricably linked to American style after young people started filling money in the tie on it.
On Monday, when the New York Fashion Week was at the end, guests were able to change the identity of the footwear that has been associated with the coin since the Second World War on a handful of shows were about how to remove the cent.
“It will be a dime,” said Martha Stewart of a chair in the front row at the Tory Burch show.
Lauren Ezersky, a former fashion writer and television commentator, offered a similar view of the Bibhu Mohapatra show. “If you have some dough, it will be a dime,” she said, also the possibility of a nickel -Lofer.
According to the Our coinStivers are about 28 percent thicker and more than two millimeters wider than money – which means that they might be too big to fit into the slots in loafers tires. “You could make it work, just like Cinderella worked,” said Mrs. Ezersky.
The designer Sergio Hudson also brought up the nickel and acknowledged that the loafers would require some design adjustments to accommodate the larger 5 -cents currency. But Mr Hudson, who was the guests of the Bibhu Mohapatra show, also had a different idea: “Maybe a fake pc will notice to put in the loafer,” he said.
In fact, the luxury brands Christian Louboutin and Miu Miu already offer shoes that are supplied in their slots with metal tokens.
During the Tory Burch show, the stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson said that she had the Miu Miu shoes and that, as money was stopped, people could consider it a sign to start Loafers with something erratic than coins. She mentioned the charms and Doodads that many now use to decorate bags.
“Just replace it with weird things like Mini Teletubby Pluche bears or something,” said Mrs. Karefa-Johnson. “The freakier the better.”
Others suggested that eliminating the cent de loafer could subject to foreign influence: for individual shows, both Linda Fargo, senior vice president of Bergdorf Goodman for Fashion, and Derek Blasberg, a fashion writer and social fixture, said the shoe for one Certain European currency.
“It will be a euro -loafer,” said Mrs. Fargo on the Luar show. She added that the term not only sounded ‘cool’, but also nodded to the popularity of Penny Loafer worldwide.
The loafers were worn almost exclusively by men in the United States before the Second World War, said Elizabeth Semmelhack, the director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. After leather rations were lifted during the war, they became popular with Teenage Schoolgirls: Mrs. Semmelhack mentioned an article from 1947 about Teen Fads in Life Magazine that noticed how young women embellished their loafers with shiny new pennies.
Of course, even when they are retired, there are more than enough cents for the tradition of struck in Loafers to continue. And the type of Loafer associated with the mint – a style produced by classic American companies such as GH Bass and luxury European labels such as Loro Piana – has shown no signs of disappearance, Msmelhack noted.
Canada eliminated his own cent more than ten years ago. Australia, New Zealand and Sweden have also stopped bullying their smallest nomination coins.
“With money that disappeared, this moment of the history of the Loafer itself will disappear,” said Mrs. Semmelhack. “But I believe that Loafers will survive the lack of money.”
The fashion writer Leandra Medine did not think that the future of the cent would have any effect on the loafer with an identity that he has formed.
“It will remain the Penny Loafer,” she said, regardless of whether money will become a remnant of the past. Mrs Medine, who was on the Tory Burch -show, added that eliminating the cent could give a value higher than one cent, so that a new wave of interest in some future generations could see as an ‘old coin’.
“That’s exciting,” she said.
