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Originally Posted by hobnail
I never know what to call them and they go by a lot of names. When I was a kid, back in the 1950s and 60s we called them go-aheads. Now I'd call them flip flops. Maybe call them sandals but I think of sandals as being less casual, made of leather.
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When I was living in Japan, they were zoris. When I moved back to the US, they were flip flops and people wondered what the hell I was talking about when I mentioned zoris.

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