Flip Flops. Two little words everyone knows and a type of shoe that EVERYONE has worn in their life in at least one point. Why exactly do they call them flip flops you may ask? The answer is actually very obvious; they flip and flop when you walk. But did you ever think that those shoes, like anything else we use, could have a history behind them? Did you know that flip flops are one of the oldest known footwear to man? Flip flops have been around for nearly six thousand years. Would you believe it? Well there’s more, depictions have been found in ancient Egyptian mural from around 4,000 B.C. Think about it, back in the older times what kind of shoes did you see on peoples’ feet? The sandals in earlier times were made form papyrus, straw, rawhide, etc. Several centuries later, supposedly, an American soldier brought a pair of Zori (traditional Japanese sandals)when he came back home from WWII. By the 1950s, a similar style to the Zori (made of rubber) was worn by Americans when they went to the beach or pool. However, no one would wear the shoes anywhere but to the pool and beach. It was in the 1960s that people truly started to wear flip slops everywhere. Nowadays, flip-flops are a $2 billion industry in the United States and that is just per year! I bet you never really thought about all of the history that was truly behind that $3 pair of flip flops you slip onto your feet every morning. Flip flops, so last year? Not quite ;)
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