50 Of My Favorite Pairs Of Shoes For Spring-Summer 2024

Plus—a cropped T-shirt I liked so much I bought it twice.

Today we continue our warm embrace of Spring-Summer 2024 with a comprehensive list of 50 pair of great shoes I rounded up from across the World Wide Web. Some of them I own— others I need to be restrained from buying myself— but all of which meet the criteria of being quality, versatile additions to any rotation. Now, there’s always the chance that in a few weeks or months I come across even more pairs I’m into, but here I tried my best to pretty much hit every major category you might want to step into this season: loafers, sandals, derbies, boots (spring versions), and a bunch of sneakers. Then I also wrote about the new $30 cropped tee I just bought and which, after realizing how much I liked it, bought again. As always, enjoy!

The shoes I personally own are marked with an asterisk.

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The Do-Everything Shoe: Loafers

If there were one style of footwear I’d call a true “must-have” this season, it’d be loafers. They’re the do-everything shoe: you can wear them with a suit as you fulfill your summer wedding obligations, but also—especially in the case of softer, more unstructured pairs—toss ‘em on to instantly make a beach-ready T-shirt and shorts feel a little snazzier. Summer is all about taking it easy, and there’s nothing easier than a pair of laceless shoes you can slide into day in and day knowing they’ll look good with literally everything.

1. Horatio Basket Weave Beaufoy Loafer, $309

2. Madewell x GH Bass & Co*, $185