When Japanese immigrants came to Hawaii to work in sugar and pineapple plantations, they brought with them their zori sandals and these caught on with the locals. Hawaiian companies began making their own versions and they soon became the quintessential island footwear, worn by everyone, everywhere. ‘Slippahs’ is the Hawaiian ‘pidgin’ word for these sandals and it’s the name most people use for them today.
In Hawaii, it’s considered polite to remove you outdoor footwear before entering a home, rude if you don’t. Inside, people either go barefoot or have indoor slippahs, which is what these are.
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Thanks for the background on these footwear! Shoes off right inside the door is how the kids in our neighborhood grew up. Less work to clean the floors.
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Yes. Don’t want all that dust and grass and mud in the house!
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Great story. We used to call them surf thongs, here.
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I think they have a lot of different names around the world.
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Another name for the same footwear worldwide. Jandels in NZ and thongs in Australia, which confuses Americans no end 😂
These are quite nice. There’s a no shoes inside at my place but I don’t have special footwear, just socks or bare feet is fine
Thanks for joining in 😀
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A prime reason here is that I don’t want to step on a centipede with bare feet!
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That’s a good reason
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Interesting. I keep thinking we should adopt the remove shoes at home practice. But only practical if one wears slip ons!
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I used to do the same thing in Washington State. Definitely helps be be changing into slip ons.
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Flipflops! Though maybe these are a bit thicker? I tend to live in them xx
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These are a bit thicker and softer, which is what I like indoors.
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We called them zoris here in Seattle when I was a kid. Slippahs is even better. 🙂
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Yes, I like slippahs too. I’d known them as flip flops before.
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