My first pair was in 1960, and we called them flip flops. The term didn’t last long. We then called them thongs. Eventually in the late 1970s some of us called them Zorries. A neighbor called them sea sandles, and in the Army they were called shower shoes.
@ Kaffekup: It was probably in Japan. “Zori” is the Japanese word for rice-straw sandals. (However; if they have a heel strap, they’re called “Warabi”.)
Wiseguy70005 over 10 years ago
Yeah, thongs is all we ever called them back in the 1960s.
blunebottle over 10 years ago
Left is Flip, right is flop.
kaffekup over 10 years ago
Somewhere I lived they were called “zorries”. Don’t recall where, though.
Willow Mt Lyon over 10 years ago
My first pair was in 1960, and we called them flip flops. The term didn’t last long. We then called them thongs. Eventually in the late 1970s some of us called them Zorries. A neighbor called them sea sandles, and in the Army they were called shower shoes.
katina.cooper over 10 years ago
Which politician at the beach did she buy them from?
comedynut over 10 years ago
now thongs took on a whole new meaning.
I like the new meaning better. ;)
brklnbern over 10 years ago
Yeh, and who was Frick and who was Frack?
snowgirl16127 over 10 years ago
I was a kid in the 60’s and we called them flip flops. Maybe it is a regional thing.
boldyuma over 10 years ago
Growing up in a Arizona border town in the 1960’s we called them “huaraches”
reynard61 over 10 years ago
@ Kaffekup: It was probably in Japan. “Zori” is the Japanese word for rice-straw sandals. (However; if they have a heel strap, they’re called “Warabi”.)