Clothes of the Seventies, Jap Flaps

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Description: This is the first time we saw flip flops with a twist. Jap Flaps had the straw weaved insoles with the velvet thong. In the school hallways all you heard was flap, flap, flap of people walking around in their jap flaps.
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H. Stowe - March 01, 2008 - Report this comment
I had a pair of these and when my Mom heard what I called them she grounded me for a weekend. From then on, they were just my sandals or as we called nearly all flip-flops back then: zoireez! Our best friends and neighbors were Japanese-Americans and my Mom was mad that we would use such a derogatory name for shoes. Two weeks after I bought them, a girlfriend permanently "borrowed" them without permission! :-/ Tami, you're still a stinker for that!
Barbie - June 25, 2008 - Report this comment
My "Jap Flaps" were blue rubber soled w/thick blue canvas-type nylon thongs. My best friend and I got matching ones in high school in 1975. I still wear them today! They don't make shoes that good anymore!! I can't find any more like it anywhere. My new puppy just chewed through the thong part! OH NO! Bad puppy!
Val - June 02, 2009 - Report this comment
These bamboo thongs w. velvet straps were super popular in So. Cal in 1972-74 or so. I was an exchange student to Venezuela, wore them there, and they didn't last a week - in the tropical climate the bamboo rotted and the velvet strap pulled right out. I LOL'ed at the description here of the flap-flap in the school hallways! At my school they were also called (even more politically incorrectly!) "Slap Jap Crap Kickers".

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