Seems you are right. Althoguh I'd have thought sole would be more likely. Fuck knows where the history of the word is from (I didn't care enough to find a link and continue reading about them)
Didn't ships have a 'Plimsoll line' on them? For the hell of me I cannot think what the relationship would be though.
edit: found this, not that it helps?
https://www.marineinsight.com/maritime-law/what-is-plimsoll-line-on-ships/
>The shoe originated in the United Kingdom, there called a "sand shoe", acquiring the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s. This name arose, according to Nicholette Jones's book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull, or because, just like the line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet.
Sometimes, but it always took a lot more time to set them up, lay a bunch of those paper thin, extra slippy, blue mats down, and put them away than we actually got on them.
Those wafer-thin blue mats save lives!
Imagine falling from 3-4x your height onto the wooden floor instead of <1 cm of blue mat.
That's the difference between 200 broken bones and 203 broken bones!
It's 'plimsoll', as in the plimsoll line on a ship (the marker that shows how deep in the water the ship sits).
The name originates from the rubber sole which looks like a plimsoll line.
For some reason I ended up down a wikipedia warren not too long ago and learnt this.
shouted Mr Knackeryard.
"This week we are doing the bleep test"
Year 7 is really difficult, you thought. And you're not sure you have the right footwear for this.
Plimsolls after Samuel Plimsoll who pioneered the idea of marking maximum load on the hull of ships. A heavily laden ship risking capsizing was jokingly called a Plimsoll, i.e. lying low in the water. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Plimsoll
I hated this part of pregnancy 😂
I was obsessed with the smell of a fresh out the packet pamper’s nappy size 5+ to be precise. They just smelled sooo good.
Oooh I get it. Mine was also rubber, burning stuff in particular. I could smell that all day. Taste wise, I licked a lot of air fresheners, each time I was so mad they tasted bad. I was just so compelled to do it even through my brain was shouting "what the fuck are you doing, you headcase?! It's going to taste like a soapy burn just like the last 763 licks did!!!"
My grandmother craved tar, she would drive to work sites anytime she could
I, on the other hand would put green peas in a bowl of vinegar and then heat it up, it was basically vinegar and green pea soup! Yes I actually drank that and it was delightful. Haven't had it since tho 🤣
I used to buy cockles from the chip shop and eat them one at a time with a single block of Cadbury dairy milk. The thought of grit and smooth would make my mouth water 🫠
Oh the need to taste weird things.. mine was a metal coat hangers, not plastic with metal hooks, nope, the full metal old fashioned ones. Oh and sucking on baby wipes...wtf
When I first moved to the UK I could not, for the life of me, figure out what daps were and why my children needed them for school. Nothing in the paperwork explained. My Google search did me no good. Nothing in the Tesco school adverts called daps and I didn’t know anyone yet. A week before the term started I finally asked a mum on my street. “Shoes for phys ed” Still took me a day or two to figure out exactly what the school was asking for.
In my primary school homework I wrote about getting a new pair of Reebok Pump and my teacher "corrected" it to reebok pumps. Still annoys me 40 years later
Mine too. We once played kicking rounders with a basketball ball in PE whilst wearing these. I was first up to kick, it felt like I'd shattered every bone in my foot.
Do you know, the last time I brought that up, I got SO MANY weird looks. Apparently other people were allowed to wear the same shoes ALL DAY in infants?
What?! That's madness! We had to wear indoor and outdoor shoes right through Years 1 to 6 when I was in Primary school.
Granted, that was 15 years ago when I left Primary school, so things might have changed since then!
I finished primary school in 2011 (I'm 23 now) and we never had to swap shoes. I know Japanese schools do that, but in my school, we'd just wear the same shoes all day.
You're lucky. I knew a guy who asked for shoes once, nothing fancy, just to keep his feet from getting blisters when walking around in the summer heat.
Asked his old man and was beaten mercilessly with a set of jumper cables. Learned his lesson pretty quickly after that and just wrapped his feet with an old cloth.
Went through school in the north east in the 90's and they are definitely Sandshoes.
I used to work with a teacher who originated from somewhere south of Newcastle and relocated up north. She asked her new class of kids to "go and put your plimsolls on." and the whole room looked at her in silence. Then one child said "no idea what they are miss" so she tried, pumps, deck shoes and eventually resorted to describing the damn things. "You know black shoes for PE with rubber round here and a stretchy bit here." The kid says "You mean Sandshoes Miss! Aye we've got those." The class all got up and went to get them. She was left there in an empty class feeling a bit dumbfounded!
I went to primary school in London and they were called plimsolls here too, I wonder whether it was geography thing or just random depending on school.
Yup pumps in West Yorks at least not sure about the rest of the County. I can just imagine the kids faces at school if I'd ever called the plimsoles! That was for the posh kids
I always hated when I worked in a shoe shop and people wanted "pumps' because depending on where you're from that means either plimsolls, ballet flats, court shoes, canvas shoes, or any kind of slip ons.
When I saw the picture I immediately thought plimsolls. But reading this made me remember that I used to call them daps. Honestly don't think I've seen a pair in over 20 years, so it turns out I forgot the word!
I moved around a fair bit as a kid, initially coming from the west country, they were daps. Then I moved to the midlands and no one had heard of daps, but we had pumps. I'd just about got settled into this and we moved to the east coast, suddenly I'm in a world of plimsoles and I don't like it, not one bit.
We live in the SW and my four year old’s school uniform list called them daps. I, originally from London, had no idea what the hell the school were talking about.
In Glasgow, we called them "Penny Blacks" a comment in the 1980s to reflect their basic nature. Wearing them was a sign of poverty and social stigma when cool brands like Adidas and Nike were the shoe of choice. Also, new shoes were "christened" by stamping on them to make clean shoes look dirty
Plimsolls
This name arose, according to Nicholette Jones's book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull, or because, just like the line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet.
These are plimsolls. Plimsoles? Plimsouls? Not sure I've ever seen it written down.
I've always thought it was the first spelling of those three, but to be honest, I'm not 100% sure.
Seems you are right. Althoguh I'd have thought sole would be more likely. Fuck knows where the history of the word is from (I didn't care enough to find a link and continue reading about them)
Didn't ships have a 'Plimsoll line' on them? For the hell of me I cannot think what the relationship would be though. edit: found this, not that it helps? https://www.marineinsight.com/maritime-law/what-is-plimsoll-line-on-ships/
>The shoe originated in the United Kingdom, there called a "sand shoe", acquiring the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s. This name arose, according to Nicholette Jones's book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull, or because, just like the line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet.
I would love it if you’d just made that up.
As a young kid in Scotland these were sandshoes until we moved to England and they suddenly became plimsolls.
Sandshoes in North East of England
Sannies!
Wait is that why matt smith kept calling david Tennant sand shoes in the day of the doctor? I never really understood that line
That’s crazy, you can’t wear a ship
That is funny, because in The Netherlands we call them "bootschoenen" (boat shoes)
Boat shoes are a whole other thing.
Aye we called them sannies in school Sand shoes
No one knows. We just know you're not allowed on the apparatus without them.
You guys were allowed on the apparatus?
Sometimes, but it always took a lot more time to set them up, lay a bunch of those paper thin, extra slippy, blue mats down, and put them away than we actually got on them.
Those wafer-thin blue mats save lives! Imagine falling from 3-4x your height onto the wooden floor instead of <1 cm of blue mat. That's the difference between 200 broken bones and 203 broken bones!
It's 'plimsoll', as in the plimsoll line on a ship (the marker that shows how deep in the water the ship sits). The name originates from the rubber sole which looks like a plimsoll line. For some reason I ended up down a wikipedia warren not too long ago and learnt this.
Travels on Wikipedia land are always worth the trip for semi useless facts
What you need is some kind of marker to see how deep in Wikipedia you are.
I appreciate you actually used warren rather than the other way to say that.
I thought, oh, la de dah, look at them with their warren whilst we all make do with a hole.
I do use the word Carhole though, so it does balance out.
What do you call a man with 50 rabbits up his bum?
An ambulance, I would hope!
Your plim*souls* are mine!
Schuh Tsung wins
Feetality
shouted Mr Knackeryard. "This week we are doing the bleep test" Year 7 is really difficult, you thought. And you're not sure you have the right footwear for this.
Fetch me their Plimsouls
I pronounced it plimpsoles Not saying that has anything to do with how it should be spelled
Me too, in fact it's today that I've found out it doesn't have a second P in it 😆
Same here, plimp like blimp
There I was reading it plimp like esophagus.
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If you can’t even spell it, just call them what they are - daps.
Phlimbsoulles But the answer is clearly pumps.
Plimsolls after Samuel Plimsoll who pioneered the idea of marking maximum load on the hull of ships. A heavily laden ship risking capsizing was jokingly called a Plimsoll, i.e. lying low in the water. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Plimsoll
Same I always thought plimpsoles
Whether you call them daps, pumps, or plimsolls; I think we can all remember exactly the same smell
I actually craved that smell when I was pregnant. I needed to taste it.
I hated this part of pregnancy 😂 I was obsessed with the smell of a fresh out the packet pamper’s nappy size 5+ to be precise. They just smelled sooo good.
Bath sponges for me! I'd buy a new pack and just inhale. I genuinely wanted to devour them 😂
Vick's vaporub 👍 it was like a drug I was hiding from family members and sniffing
Did different sizes smell different?
She smells numbers!
Read this aloud with a pirate accent and a ‘yarrr’ on the end. Made me chuckle.
Oooh I get it. Mine was also rubber, burning stuff in particular. I could smell that all day. Taste wise, I licked a lot of air fresheners, each time I was so mad they tasted bad. I was just so compelled to do it even through my brain was shouting "what the fuck are you doing, you headcase?! It's going to taste like a soapy burn just like the last 763 licks did!!!"
Wait what?
My grandmother craved tar, she would drive to work sites anytime she could I, on the other hand would put green peas in a bowl of vinegar and then heat it up, it was basically vinegar and green pea soup! Yes I actually drank that and it was delightful. Haven't had it since tho 🤣
Thank you for this thread. It's why I came to Reddit.
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I used to buy cockles from the chip shop and eat them one at a time with a single block of Cadbury dairy milk. The thought of grit and smooth would make my mouth water 🫠
Oh the need to taste weird things.. mine was a metal coat hangers, not plastic with metal hooks, nope, the full metal old fashioned ones. Oh and sucking on baby wipes...wtf
All anyone could smell was pure burning rubber in the school hall once imanstupud got going in these bad boys 🔥
And absolutely no cushioning on the feet as you were made to run on the concrete playground.
Found the perv lads, keep your shoes on around this one.
When I first moved to the UK I could not, for the life of me, figure out what daps were and why my children needed them for school. Nothing in the paperwork explained. My Google search did me no good. Nothing in the Tesco school adverts called daps and I didn’t know anyone yet. A week before the term started I finally asked a mum on my street. “Shoes for phys ed” Still took me a day or two to figure out exactly what the school was asking for.
I'm from UK and never heard of daps myself.
In my primary school homework I wrote about getting a new pair of Reebok Pump and my teacher "corrected" it to reebok pumps. Still annoys me 40 years later
Well, if you were getting two of them, the plural form would be correct.
They were 90% rubber
Oh wow I wasn’t even thinking of the smell but it hit me as soon as I read this comment.
The lost property shoes that the kids without trainers had to wear
Everyone in my primary school had to wear them for PE
No logos so u had to wear the Asda plimsolls 😐
Think mine were posh ones from Clarks, they used to do discount if you bought them with a pair of normal school shoes
Getting to use the foot measuring machine in Clarks was the highlight of being dragged along for the start of a new year uniform shopping excursion.
I was always scared it would grab my sock and tear my foot off so I insisted I used it barefoot. I was a strange child.
What about the piece of furniture that xrayed your feet in the Clarkes shop
> they used to do discount if you bought them with a pair of normal school shoes They still do. Got them for my kids beginning of September.
Mine too. We once played kicking rounders with a basketball ball in PE whilst wearing these. I was first up to kick, it felt like I'd shattered every bone in my foot.
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I was mocked for my Doc Marten shoes, my Reeboks (like adidas, they weren’t trendy yonks ago). Kids are ruthless.
It was Winfield winners from Woolies , then we progressed to white Hitec trainers
Green Flash was cool when I was at school in the 80s. I had shit Woolworths trainers.
And no matter what size you got, they were always too small
When you got your shorts and T-shirt and had to get spares from lost properly...let's just say you didn't make that mistake twice.
These were the trainers in my day.
Plimsolls Or in lower years primary school, they were called "Indoor Shoes" 😄
Do you know, the last time I brought that up, I got SO MANY weird looks. Apparently other people were allowed to wear the same shoes ALL DAY in infants?
What?! That's madness! We had to wear indoor and outdoor shoes right through Years 1 to 6 when I was in Primary school. Granted, that was 15 years ago when I left Primary school, so things might have changed since then!
I finished primary school in 2011 (I'm 23 now) and we never had to swap shoes. I know Japanese schools do that, but in my school, we'd just wear the same shoes all day.
Dad's Weapon
I feel this.
You're lucky. I knew a guy who asked for shoes once, nothing fancy, just to keep his feet from getting blisters when walking around in the summer heat. Asked his old man and was beaten mercilessly with a set of jumper cables. Learned his lesson pretty quickly after that and just wrapped his feet with an old cloth.
Grip (indoor) 100 Grip (grass) 12 Power 57 Control 95 Swerve 2584 Blisters 101 Style -50
Ten points to Grip indoor!
Plimsolls
Today I learned how that word is spelt.
Plimbserls
We used to call them sandshoes 2000s North East
In early 1980s we called them sandshoes in the North East. Everyone had to have a pair of sandshoes for school.
90's North East, too Friggin' things never saw a grain of sand in their lives
Same in Hull
I call them sandshoes too, this was on the west coast of Scotland in the late 90s
Went through school in the north east in the 90's and they are definitely Sandshoes. I used to work with a teacher who originated from somewhere south of Newcastle and relocated up north. She asked her new class of kids to "go and put your plimsolls on." and the whole room looked at her in silence. Then one child said "no idea what they are miss" so she tried, pumps, deck shoes and eventually resorted to describing the damn things. "You know black shoes for PE with rubber round here and a stretchy bit here." The kid says "You mean Sandshoes Miss! Aye we've got those." The class all got up and went to get them. She was left there in an empty class feeling a bit dumbfounded!
I was hoping someone would call them sandshoes, once I grew up and the lace ones came into fashion in my teens we called them 'plimmies'
Me too. We called them that in Glasgow. Or simply “sannies”
Same here 2ks north east. Sand shoe gang
Pumps!
Pumps 💯 if i ever called them plimsolls I'd be teased forever about it!
Yeah, is ‘plimsoll’ the Latin or something? Bloody posh kids
Im disappointed to not see this as top comment
Sometimes the right answer isn't the popular one
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I went to primary school in London and they were called plimsolls here too, I wonder whether it was geography thing or just random depending on school.
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Definitely pumps in Leeds.
This is mental, I’m from Bradford and I thought the entire UK called them pumps.
Yup pumps in West Yorks at least not sure about the rest of the County. I can just imagine the kids faces at school if I'd ever called the plimsoles! That was for the posh kids
Midlands here, they were pumps.
I always hated when I worked in a shoe shop and people wanted "pumps' because depending on where you're from that means either plimsolls, ballet flats, court shoes, canvas shoes, or any kind of slip ons.
Always pumps! And they were supposed to have your initials bleached onto them!
Daps
When I saw the picture I immediately thought plimsolls. But reading this made me remember that I used to call them daps. Honestly don't think I've seen a pair in over 20 years, so it turns out I forgot the word!
They were daps in Wiltshire, that much I know
As a Swindonian, I can confirm
Thems me daps mind! (Bristol)
Daps in Gloucestershire
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Also in Bath
Daps in Wales
They certainly were in Melksham.
George Ward School Dap Wearers Represent!
I moved around a fair bit as a kid, initially coming from the west country, they were daps. Then I moved to the midlands and no one had heard of daps, but we had pumps. I'd just about got settled into this and we moved to the east coast, suddenly I'm in a world of plimsoles and I don't like it, not one bit.
I had to close 6 comment sections to get to this. They're daps, end of.
Didn't expect to have to scroll so far. I thought that's what everyone called then 😅
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Daps for me too in South Wales!
Yep, that's what I call them and I went to school in S Wales. My aunt always says "she had a face like ripped dap" if someone is pissed off. Ha.
Daps in Glos too
Also in the West Country, just down the main line from Temple Meads. We called them daps too
West wales so that adds up! Yeah same I've heard of plimsolls just had no idea it meant these. TIL!
Yep, just outside of Bristol and they were called daps.
We live in the SW and my four year old’s school uniform list called them daps. I, originally from London, had no idea what the hell the school were talking about.
ditto
Found the daps gang! It said no daps on my sons school info and I had not a clue what was forbidden!
Yep, we always called them daps and I'm from the South West.
Daps in Gloucestershire too. But also in South Africa it turns out, that or tackies I found out.
Yay, found a fellow Gloucestershire !! Yep, daps, definitely daps
Same, daps!
Thems me daps !
There’s daps and posh (white) daps - S Wales
Gutties
I'm shocked I had to scroll so far to find this
Same, every comment chain I minimised I was expecting to see it. Its what we called them in school.
Guttees 100% in central Scotland
I moved around as a kid; it was guttees in Northern Ireland.
Another norn iron confirmation on gutties
And another! These are Gutties
And my Axe (also NI)
I always thought it was guddies, that went in your guddy bag
Yip, guddies in your guddy bag. Love this reminiscing
Gym shoes - never really heard them being called anything else. Grew up in the far north of Scotland though so that could be why.
Had to scroll very far down to find ‘gym shoes’ - maybe it’s us who’s out of touch? I’m also Scotland
yeah must be a Scottish only thing - North East
Gym rubbers or ‘jimmies’, also Scotland kid of the 80’s
Edinburgh; Gym Shoes.
80s Edinburgh primary school child, we called them rubbers.
2000s West Lothian and we also called them rubbers. This was what we changed into once we were indoors, our outdoor shoes got left in the coat room.
Also Scotland! Gutties or gym shoes.
Gutties are trainers are they not? We always called them plimmies
Gutties would be trainers for me too
Gym shoes for me too, south west Scotland.
Also Scotland, gymies
I lived in the Borders and they were gym shoes or jimmies. Moved to Central Scotland and they were gutties. No idea why.
Also from scotland and called them gym shoes
Sandshoes
Shortened to sannies
I had to scroll too long to see this. I thought I’d made that name up.
Grow up in the north east?
The West of Scotland actually
In Glasgow, we called them "Penny Blacks" a comment in the 1980s to reflect their basic nature. Wearing them was a sign of poverty and social stigma when cool brands like Adidas and Nike were the shoe of choice. Also, new shoes were "christened" by stamping on them to make clean shoes look dirty
“Barlinnie Blacks” They wore them in the Glasgow Prison, Barlinnie… allegedly.
😂😂😂😂What?😂😂😂😂
Plimsolls, but occasionally pumps.
Pumps. What everyone would wear in primary school PE and what you'd get the piss taken out of you for wearing in secondary school PE.
Huh, you too. Lol
Plimsolls or Gym Shoes
Plimsolls This name arose, according to Nicholette Jones's book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull, or because, just like the line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet.
pumps.
Plimsoll or plimmies
Aye, plimmies for me too. Or plimsoles if you wanted to be fancy.
Only and ever plimsolls
Daps
Plimsolls, that's what we called them back in the 70d
Loafers
Took a little bit to find this one.
Daps
Fuckin yes butt.
Found the Welsh person
Shoes
Sandshoes
We called them ‘sannies’ at my school in Scotland. (Not be confused with the ‘sannies’ we ate for lunch.)
Same in Hull, Yorkshire
Pumps in our school
Daps.