Are These Shoes Hideous or Genius?

Some shoes we simply wear. Others, we debate endlessly. New Balance’s mutant 1906L is clearly in the latter category.

Introduced last year, New Balance’s shoe is a mash-up of a sneaker and a loafer, christened the “Snoafer” by the internet. It’s a mutt-like design caught in the liminal space between informal and formal..