Penny Loafers

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Yesterday I was talking with a lady who lives in my building, and I noticed she was wearing a pair of old penny loafers. Does anyone remember those shoes? I used to love them and wore them when I was a teenager and maybe into my twenties. But I don't remember seeing or hearing anything about them in years. It brought back interesting memories of the types of shoes I wore as a child. I wasn't supposed to wear loafers or tennis shoes or go barefoot back then because I was under treatment by a foot doctor for having been born with "crooked" legs. Back in the day they thought that building up my arches would help correct my legs. It didn't. But as I got older in childhood, I started refusing to wear the shoes that my mom tried to get me to wear. I was a child, wanting to run and play with my friends, but she had me wearing the best shoes with the best arch supports she could find. Back then that was heavy nurses' shoes. I also got to wear Buster Brown shoes that were suede, but I could not wear them to play in because they would get ruined if they got wet or muddy. She also made me wear saddle shoes, which I hated as well. Then in high school, saddle shoes became THE thing to wear, and I never did because I had hated wearing them when I was younger. There came a time when I broke all the "rules" and only went barefooted when I was outside playing most of the time or wore tennis shoes or those wonderful penny loafers. I always had to have two pennies, one for each shoe. I remember one time putting dimes in the slots instead of pennies. I was in band in school and in high school I had to wear tennis shoes for my band uniform when we marched. One time I had to go back to the foot doctor for a different problem and he checked my legs. He said they looked better than they had and what was I doing. I said I was going barefooted, wearing tennis shoes, and loafers. He said to keep doing what I was doing. LOL I give credit to being in marching band. Did you ever wear penny loafers?