Flip-Flopping in Boston
When I was a kid, we used to wear these old-school flip-flops to the beach. I grew up in Hull, MA, and flip-flops were commonplace all over town. Actually, we used to call them “thongs”. That was before thongs looked like this:
But you can see the resemblance here:
In any case, sometime at the turn of the millenium, women started wearing flip-flops around town, to work, out to shows and other places that, well, aren’t the beach. Fine. A sexy woman’s foot looks good even while flexing a fashion faux pas (like wearing beach-wear to a 5 star restaurant). This trend is pretty much over. Yeah. There are still some holdouts–usually amateurs that probably still wear UGH!…ly boots in winter. Northeastern students… What can you do?
Here’s the thing. If you thought women flip-flopping around town was bad enough, there is a scourge of flip-flop wearing dudes around the city. Oftentimes, they are also wearing backwards baseball caps (indoors). Imagine what our civilization must look like to beings from another planet? Greek. And I don’t mean like people from Greece. Sadly, at least in Boston, the fraternaties and sororities have won. The one saving grace of 9 cold months is that in the coming weeks the flip-flops will all but disappear. Now, what can we do about the baseball caps?
September 14th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
If only Toad were frequented by bottoms like that! Flipas-flopas, I’d be over the Atlantic in a flash.
Actually perhaps not in a ‘flash’ as that is too closely associated with explosion!
I remember there were some complete wankers who’d wear baseball caps in the Toad, excluding Andy of course. Don’t the Puritans know it’s unlucky to be with head cover whilst indoors?!
September 14th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
True dat, my man. The baseball cap wearers still frequent Toad, and they’re still uncool.
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 am
[…] As I’ve discussed previously, flip-flops are beachwear. I’m not a big fan of seeing them in the city, never mind on stage–a little too casual, a little too I don’t give a shit. In fact, flip-flops made my infamous “Top 10 Signs You’re at a Folk Show in Cambridge” list that I published last year at this time. That is why, this year, the August blog gods decided to play a sick and twisted practical joke on me. […]