weejun
A kind of loafer having a strip of leather across the saddle with a diamond cut-out.
15 other women got together and we all wore the dyke outfit of the sixties, which was topsiders or weejun loafers, cordoroy ^([sic]) pants, oxford cloth shirts, either a seersucker or a madras jacket, a pinky ring and a Dunhill lighter.
Where it comes from
Originally a brand name Weejun, from clipping of Norwegian. Introduced in 1934 by Maine bootmaker G. H. Bass.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry weejun (CC BY-SA 4.0).