Shopping The Classics - Crowdsourced Requests for Loafers, Trench Coats, Thin Turtlenecks, etc etc etc!

Here we go with another round of Crowdsourced Shopping! It’s been a while, but this time I wanted to touch on transitional dressing - or the things you were when it’s not the pleasant time of fall anymore but it’s not quite full blown winter either. And happily, most of the requests in this letter are also in the realm of wardrobe staples - or things that hypothetically you only need to invest in once. Not trend-oriented or super novel, these should all last nicely.

Here we go:

LOAFERS

Loafers! I get it! They’re the best! This is the kind of thing though that hopefully you only really need one or max two pairs of. The joy of them is watching them get all worn in and beat up and loved. These are shoes to live in.

1. A lug sole version - I have a hard time wrapping my head around a lug sole loafer, but I know they’re very popular - they’re also objectively better than leather soles in bad weather or ice. So I totally get it. I like these because they have the heaviness that you want in a …