Kyras

Here's a visual of the two thongs.


^Spenco women's Yumi 2 Snake. $59.99 on Zappos.



^hari mari Nokona flip flop. $110 on Zappos.

Lainey

For $110.00 I want an entire shoe!! Those flip flops for men look as if they offer zero support.

Kyras

I wanted to show the support that Spencos have. They really are perfect for my feet.

boltonblue

You can tell Patty's California roots. sandals and flip flops. thongs

tof

Congratulations on 15 years living in sin. Well done!

tof

Rule of two: Two is one and one is none. Always have a spare, whether its pairs of shoes or rolls of aluminum foil or jugs of laundry detergent or cartons of eggs. Not that I take foil or eggs on the road, but you get the idea.

dlq04

Yep that's why I buy two handles at a time.

Kyras

ZORIES!

Who Made That Flip-Flop?

By Pagan Kennedy

“I do not know how you feel about the Japanese,” wrote a journalist named Elliott Chaze in 1952, “but I do like their feet.” Seven years after World War II, many Americans still regarded the Japanese as enemies — and distrusted anything to do with the country. Yet a rubber version of a Japanese sandal called the zori had become a popular item in U.S. drugstores. “Our women have commenced wearing thonged sandals,” Chaze announced, noting that “obscene picture-books” from Asia eroticized the feet. Japanese women, he believed, revealed themselves in the curl of their toes. And now, thanks to the rubber zoris, American women would too.
Elizabeth Semmelhack, senior curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, says that the flip-flop probably originated in the factories of Japan. “The rubber industry was in full swing,” she said, and local designers would have experimented with synthetic zoris. The Hiroshima Rubber Company made the sandals for export in the 1950s — supersizing the zoris to accommodate Westerners’ feet.

“All us well-dressed Lake Tahoe summer residents are wearing thongs this year,” reported the humorist Frank Johnson in 1960, adding, with what now seems shocking racism, that “we pad around in floppy hunks of rubber a sensible coolie wouldn’t wear into a rice paddy.” According to Semmelhack, the term “flip-flop” arose spontaneously in the 1960s, inspired by the slap-slap of rubber as it hit the foot. That year the thongs spread to beaches everywhere and soon Americans began to believe that the rubber thong had been our idea all along.

boltonblue

I blew out my flip flop
Stepped on a pop top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on

Hertz Donut

True, the irony is my job is heavily involved in risk mitigation and system redundancy to ensure our company never has a major failure, but this one just slipped past me because it was a last minute decision to go down and there was no plans to do anything at all, I just got bored and went for a wander.

On the bright side the house settled late yesterday and funds are now safely tucked under the mattress.