Originally Posted by
COScotsman
During the early to mid 70s here in CO, they were known as thongs. The 80s came along and the name changed to flip-flops as not to be confused with other apparel. I only heard the term zori (草履) while living in Japan.
I have no explanation for us Southern California teens and kids using the term "zori" in the 1960s, but there it is.
If somebody said "thongs" "sandals" or the onomatopoeic "flipflops" I would know what they meant, but for us the ordinary word was zorries.
For sure there was a large local Japanese-American presence, still is.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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