Ah, les Italiens. Everybody in French Riviera said this on seeing Gigi Rizzi and his merry band arrive in moccasins. With shirts opened wide to the chest and handkerchieves around the neck, a symbol of all revolutionaries, they conquered none other than Brigitte Bardot. No woman has ever resisted the refined elegance and understatement of a man in loafers.
Not wanting to offend anyone but, worn without socks is pretty much obligatory. We know that you are aware of this but someone could happen upon this page by mistake and to see them in socks and loafers is something that we could never forgive.