saddle shoe
noun
: an oxford-style shoe having a saddle of contrasting color or leather
called also saddle oxford
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That, quite by accident, is what Juli Lynne Charlot did in late 1947, in the process creating a totem of midcentury material culture as evocative as the saddle shoe, the Hula-Hoop and the pink plastic lawn flamingo.
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Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
In addition to loafers, the saddle shoe was associated with college style in the 1940s and ‘50s.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
By the end of the 1940s, the saddle shoe was a top shoe choice for teenage girls.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
Attendees are encouraged to wear poodle skirts, saddle shoes, penny loafers and leather jackets and dance the afternoon away.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2019
Come dressed in your saddle shoes and poodle skirt and feel the nostalgia of 60 years past.
—Sam Boyer, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
In an anachronistic twist, while the atmosphere and the music scream 1950s, the guests have traded their poodle skirts for bathing suits underneath cover-ups and their saddle shoes for flip flops.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2019
Fiordiligi and Dorabella first appear in bobby socks and saddle shoes—concealed the darker desires that infuse everything about Così fan tutte.
—Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2018
In my memory, Rachel Antonoff's collaboration with Bass (yes, of Weejuns fame) was perhaps the first time wearing polka-dot saddle shoes in coordinating colors could be considered a deliberate, nice-looking choice.
—Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 10 Jan. 2017
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Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
In addition to loafers, the saddle shoe was associated with college style in the 1940s and ‘50s.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
By the end of the 1940s, the saddle shoe was a top shoe choice for teenage girls.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
Attendees are encouraged to wear poodle skirts, saddle shoes, penny loafers and leather jackets and dance the afternoon away.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2019
Come dressed in your saddle shoes and poodle skirt and feel the nostalgia of 60 years past.
—Sam Boyer, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
In an anachronistic twist, while the atmosphere and the music scream 1950s, the guests have traded their poodle skirts for bathing suits underneath cover-ups and their saddle shoes for flip flops.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2019
Fiordiligi and Dorabella first appear in bobby socks and saddle shoes—concealed the darker desires that infuse everything about Così fan tutte.
—Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2018
In my memory, Rachel Antonoff's collaboration with Bass (yes, of Weejuns fame) was perhaps the first time wearing polka-dot saddle shoes in coordinating colors could be considered a deliberate, nice-looking choice.
—Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 10 Jan. 2017
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“Saddle shoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saddle%20shoe. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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