When I returned to my ship I had orders for quite a few pair of 'gettas'. If only there were shipping containers back then I could have filled on with 'gettas', set up a shop outside my pub and made my fortune. Unfortunately someone with get-up-and-go beat my to the punch. Contributor's comments: [Brisbane informant] Flip-flops is an alternative, I think. Contributor's comments: [from northern SA] We have always called them thongs.
Contributor's comments: I remember my cousins who lived in both QLD and Victoria during their childhood, using the word 'jandles' when talking about their thongs. I am sure I have heard it used by others since then.
Contributor's comments: 'Jandles' is very much a southern New Zealand regionalism, and may be derived from a brand name. Contributor's comments: The kids next door to us in the 50s and 60s in suburban Perth always called thongs getties.
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Once you have verified your account via this link, your My Escape account will activate and you're all set to access our incredible deals. As Australia's tourism boomed during the s and 60s, so too did its sartorial image, with thongs taking centre stage as the footwear of choice for an egalitarian, laid-back society.
So widespread did they become, in fact, that by the mid s bans were being sought by state governments to avoid frequent injuries at the workplace — especially construction sites. In the name of professionalism, in the Queensland government decreed that schoolteachers not be permitted to wear thongs to work. This year, they have been banned for wear at Australia Day citizenship ceremonies — a decision reflecting a wish for greater " significance and formality " to be represented at official events.
But the rubbery love affair endured, perhaps shown most ardently when Kylie Minogue made her entrance as part of the Sydney Olympics atop a giant rubber thong carried by lifeguards. In members of an American college women's lacrosse team wore them to the White House to meet President Bush.
There followed a furor over whether this brazen act was disrespectful, a distraction from the women's achievements or signalled a casual shift in attitudes to leaders and fashion in the years after the Clinton sex scandals. Since the late s it has been possible to buy more formal heeled versions.
Although these were widely mocked as expensive aberrations of the style, they looked to making a Kardashian-led comeback in recent times. There is a poignant irony in the fact that thongs are the most popular kind of shoe in developing countries, precisely because of their cheap manufacture often made from recycled rubber tyres and consequently, very low purchase cost. This practice of appropriating "ordinary" or "working class" clothing — transitioning it from the practical to the fashionable — is nothing new.
We've seen it with singlets and boilersuits. Clogs are another footwear example. Rather than a form of fashion whimsy, Australians take their thongs seriously. Even the naming of them — after the structural make-up of the shoe's fastening rather than the onomatopoeic "flip flop" used by other countries — flies in the face of the Australian preference for shortened diminutives and nicknames.
That shows true commitment, but also that thongs are not really so dinky-di, after all. Lydia Edwards is a fashion historian at Edith Cowan University. This article originally appeared on The Conversation. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Geishas, workers, soldiers Japan is often cited as the pivotal influence, perhaps because the culture features not only the thong's closest ancestor the flat-soled zori , traditionally made from straw but also the chunky geta sandal , famously worn by geisha for centuries in an effort to keep trailing kimono hems out of the mud.
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