Argument rages in New Zealand over who invented the
jandal, preferred January footwear of undocumented myriads of the population.
Was it Morris Yock, importer of the refashioned zori, or Japanese sandal? Or
his colleague, Des Cowie of Taranaki? Representatives of both families fight
wars of words over their place in the footnotes of history. Australia,
meanwhile, is riven by the question: thongs or flip-flops? The thong crowd have
the numbers historically, while flip-flops are a British, or worse American,
import of the past forty years. That’s not a long time, given the ancient
Egyptians wore them forty hundred years ago.
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