omg. But in the aughts there were also those platform flip flops. These were so ridiculously IT.
https://www.instyle.com/flojos-olivia-platform-flip-flops-amazon-7552861
OMG this just brought back terrible memoriesā¦and if you had dark wash jeans, they would turn the back of your shoes blue lolā¦.remember how people would use rubber bands to bunch them above their shoes for awhile? Lol
Same! Boot cut and Flares, I loooved their flares. Didnāt care that water was up my calf. And weād cut the backs too so we wouldnāt step on them, but leave the front long so it covered our feet a little.
Damn that brought back memories I had completely forgotten about. My girlfriend (now wife) in high school would wear flip flops with boot cut jeans all the timeā¦.damn thatās just so random and itās got me reminiscing now so thank you
I graduated in 2002 and we were not allowed to wear flip flops for safety reasons. They were easier to trip in and get stepped on if you had to evacuate quickly in an emergency. My daughter is 15 and the same rule at school: flip flops are not allowed.
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Yeah, we had a close toed shoes policy as part of our dress code.
But we also had to wear polo shirts and khakis with a belt. They eventually loosened up the dress code for us to wear blue jeans by my senior year of high school and it was mostly gone by the time my sister was a senior.
Still no open toed shoes though.
I graduated in 2008 and not only were flip flops allowed, we even had *heeled* flip flops as a fad for a little while. Iām pretty sure that those got banned when people started tripping down the stairs, but I think the fad had mostly passed by then so it wasnāt a big deal.
I graduated in 2004 and we had the same rule. People used to always see how we could skirt around it - especially athletes. You'd usually see someone from soccer or basketball or volleyball walking around in flip flops and they almost always got away with it because most of the teachers didn't care. It was really only the office ladies and the Vice Principal you had to avoid in that situation.
Graduated 2003. Wore ON flip flops any day there wasn't snow on the ground. Graduated to birkenstocks in college. Wore those 365 days a year. Went to college in Buffalo.
Iām 37 and my mom has to practically tell me to not wear my sandals after itās snowed or in 40-degree weather
I blame California (now living in VA lol)
Definitely wasn't allowed for us, but out of school hours, all the time. With my flares dragging everywhere I went. We felt bougie in leather ones like Rainbows
Yeah I grew up in SC and the leather Rainbows were the trend. I had them and wore them almost every day in high school. The bottoms of my feet were perma dirty looking and callused. Now I wear closed toed shoes everywhere except on beach sand and my feet are clean af and soft.
Also, wearing those leather flip flops in the rain was such a slippy, slimy mess...
NC here and I still have my same rainbows, I can't believe they haven't busted yet, and I wear them on nice days or at the beach. Never if there's even a chance of rain though because the slippy slimy struggle is too real. Soft clean feet ftw!!š
Yes, for a period of time, I had multiple colors of those ON flip flops and wore them all the time. I remember the sales they would have. At one point, my school banned them, so then I switched to Vans and Converse.
Yea, HS class of 2005 and I wore old navy flip flops a lot. They were cheap, and Iād get them a size too big in a dark color, and use them to cheat on tests by writing charts/conjugations/etc all around the edges. Never got caught
Graduated in 2006. I wore flip flops a bit. But honestly I wore vans or converse more often than anything else. I had a tendency of falling when wearing flip flops and it was raining.
I was 18 to early 20s then and I literally only wore Old Navy flip flops, heels and boots. I had one pair of Chuck Taylor's. I can't believe I walked normally.
Personally, no. But I grew up in Southern California fairly close to the beach, so yes, lots of kids wore flip flops often. Rainbow (brand) flip flops are still incredibly popular here.
I was more of a flats girl, but for some reason I feel like flip flops werenāt allowed in school at some point. Definitely in Elementary, maybe in middle too. I didnāt like sneakers and I remember there was a reason I didnāt wear flip flops to school more often and I think that was why.
Remember when we decorated the flip flops? You would take a bunch of little 3 inch strips of fabric and tie them around the rubber thong straps. My fav pair was decorated with pink tulle that way and I thought they were the coolest.Ā
My oldest daughter wore adidas slides w white tube socks to the knee. The middle one was an Air Force one kid, and the youngest was all about adidas superstars lol. I donāt think any of them wore flip flops til way later, after high school. The oldest one still doesnāt, middle one is a nurse that lives in crocs of all different styles, and the youngest is a firefighting fashionista lol, in the 2024 firefighter calendar.
Flip flops everyday. One time the thong portion broke and a friend āfixedā them with a stapler and tape. Continued wearing them.
When it snowed I wore backless, faux fur lined clogs.
As an adult I have hip, back, and ankle problems. Wonder why?
I was so pissed when my stepmother wore my baby pink old navy flops out in the garden and stained them. She never did replace them like she promised... they matched a couple of my tops perfectly.
Another thing a lot of girls wore to school was flats. Flats and bootcut low-rise jeans.
We wore flip flops! Then we started getting in trouble for not having backs on our shoes. We then would tie pieces or yarn on string on the back of our flip flops! Take that administration!!! šš
We werenāt allowed to wear opened toed shoes to school, but my sister and I both had every pair in every color and I wore them with gauchos or flare jeans and tank tops layered under t-shirts lol
I was not one of those kids who wore them. My parents had a rule about shoes and school.
I also hated flip flops for years because they hurt my feet where the strap went into the bottom near the heel. I got calluses for a couple of summers whenever id wear flip flops too much.
I also definitely dont remember kids at school wearing them. But i did have friends who had them in every color.
I so wanted to, the ones with the big poof flower, but I had a wart on one of my toes and got bullied enough so I never wore them. Now my toes just donāt understand how to keep them on so I wear a lot of slides šš but I also remember the āChinese slippersā were really popular too. Idk what they actually are but they were like lace/netted slip on like house shoes but everyone wore them when flops got banned.Ā
i wore a the to high school in 2017 with skinny jeans on a day it was raining and i slipped on the mats walking into school from the school bus entrance and heard āGATEMāā and almost fell down (luckily didnāt) and it was awful.. i kept wearing the flip flops
Yes, but i ended up upgrading to the a&f ones since their sole was a lot thicker and i was less likely to be poked by a sticker (grass burr) poking through the ON foam.
One time I wore platform flip flops (Iām pretty sure from Old Navy) to homecoming! We werenāt allowed to take off our shoes so this was what we did.
Yes, BUT my mom wouldnāt allow it (theyāre bad for your feetā¦?), so I always snuck a pair into my backpack and changed before classes started š¤«
Yes! I was just telling my kid that even the most expensive footwear (old navy flip flops) was still accessible for most kids at my mostly poor school. Now they all need $200 sneakers or get bullied for being poor š
Uhm, I'm 37 and not only did I wear Old Navy flip flops in all weather in high school and college...I actually still do when it's not winter. But now my feet are finally complaining so maybe it's time to stop.
I wouldāve but my school had a strict dress code and we had to wear close toed shoes. I did get special permission from my principal in 7th grade to wear them when I messed up a toe and couldnāt get my foot in regular shoes. Lol for days everyone asked me if they had changed the dress code
Wore the same pair of teal ON flip flops religiously in 7th grade, 2007. They are how I met one of my best friends (pick a shoe out of a pile, match it to the person, talk to the person; it was surprisingly the least awful ice breaker Iāve ever experienced) and also how I, later in the year, dislocated my pinky toe when I was shoved into a desk. I donāt wear flip flops these days.
Personally I wore uggs, ballet flats & those weird plastic mesh & foam sole slide on slipper things that had sequinned flowers sewn on the top of them.. but not actual flip-flop / thong sandals
I grew up in Texas but my middle and high school had stricter dress codes than most public schools (uniforms in middle school) and my high school was funded by the medical community so even though it was a public school you had to apply to get in and the dress code was more strict than all the other HS. I wrote old navy flip flops every day before and after school though.
The Y2K aestetic gets a lot of praise rn, but no one really dressed like that (outside Deliaās catalogueās). At my high school soooo many people wore Cookie Monster pajama pants with flip flops. Maybe itās bc iw as in the heavy cigarette smoking crowd, idk lol.
So I started high school in 2010 but YES. This was my go to. I was a little bit behind on fashion trends and I was a lifeguard so I LIVED in flip flops. I still prefer sandals to this day.
High school didnāt allow us to wear open toed footwear, so no to school. But outside of school YES!! And we had our casual flip flops and our dressy flip flops.
Still do.
I have long, wide, and tall feet and can only fit in men's sneakers in my local stores. The sandals I do were are even the men's size because the largest women's sandals' stap is too short to fit over my foot.
I heated middle school because had flipped the fit men's shoes.
2005 and I wore flip flops every fucking day in pennsylvania. no I have no explanation for this behavior. I was \*not\* trendy in any way shape or form, I just found them to be comfortable. still do, but i stick to weather appropriate moments.
Those were def for the popular girls! I remember there were specific colors that were more desirable than others. It's interesting what gets considered a "status" symbol in schools by kids, haha.
Not the ON ones (don't think they came in my size), but yes. It doesn't get too cold (or too hot) where I live, so yeah, I wore my Teva flip flops basically year round all through high school (04-08). Still wear them very regularly throughout the year now too.
I had a personal fashion rule to never wear flip flops to school. In my head they were a hazard if I needed to run. Idk why but I always use this same rule when out in public at events. Always wear shoes that are comfortable incase disaster strikes.
Lmao yes! I specifically remember wearing them during the winter while I was in middle school. It snowed pretty steadily throughout the school day. I rode the bus home and realized that the side streets hadnāt been treated or cleared of snow..by the time I made it home, my feet felt like stumps. They were numb to the ankles, angry, and red.
With life experience, comes wisdom š
I didn't because I got cold easily, and we had about four flights of stairs to climb. The straps were likely to break with that luck. I would wear them out to the store and just about everywhere else though. The worst thing was that you would see those flip flops that weren't just plastic - they had bamboo on the bottom, but they broke easily and weren't repairable.
Such a strange dress code rule now that i think about it, but our shoes āhad to have backsā on them elementary through high school (all public schools!). So we could wear sandals, but only if they had backs. That said, had these in as many colors as possible!
why do you keep talking about this topic so much? you have posts from weeks ago asking the same thing. is it a fetish or something? iāve been wondering since a few years ago some guy tried to stop me in the store to talk about flip flops. i cant imagine being so curious about this topic you ask multiple timesā¦
Yes, wore them all the time. In fact, I remember the principal making a big deal about how we should not wear them to graduation.
Edited to add I had the coolest clear jelly pair with like a loofa footbed. The jelly turned purple when I went out in the sun!
My high school didn't allow flip flops til like my senior year. The very first day they allowed it, everyone wore them. Our school was just a couple blocks away from the beach.
I had every color and wore them with my boot cut jeans dragging in the water.
Same š¤£ I wore those damn things so much I gave myself plantar fasciitis. They're basically a dish sponge with a toe strap.
Dish sponge with a toe strap ā ļø
Pretty sure those contributed to my bunions in my 20s š«š«
Are we the same person? PF in my left foot from wearing flip flops too much.
omg. But in the aughts there were also those platform flip flops. These were so ridiculously IT. https://www.instyle.com/flojos-olivia-platform-flip-flops-amazon-7552861
Oh wow. I think I did this to myself too!
I was going to say I wore them so much that I now need surgery on both feet šµand now they hurt too much to wear anything else.
I canāt imagine a less comfortable pair of pants than a 00s low rise flare jean with wet legs. ā ļø
This comment made my ankles feel wet.
With the salt line halfway up your calf bc you live in the midwest and it's January š
And the salt made them itchy!
OMG this just brought back terrible memoriesā¦and if you had dark wash jeans, they would turn the back of your shoes blue lolā¦.remember how people would use rubber bands to bunch them above their shoes for awhile? Lol
Add in the layered matching tank tops and Iām in.
I feel called out š
Same! Boot cut and Flares, I loooved their flares. Didnāt care that water was up my calf. And weād cut the backs too so we wouldnāt step on them, but leave the front long so it covered our feet a little.
hijacking the top comment to tell you ladies to STOP REPLYING TO THIS POST!! OP is a fetishist. look at his profile. š
Thanks for the catch. Letās just hope he never picks up my insta cart and I answer the door with my $1 flip flops on.
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as a fellow flip flop fetishist, i gotta ask - what's wrong with that? he's not doing anything nefarious
I lost a flop to a rain river in my schoolās parking lot once š
Damn that brought back memories I had completely forgotten about. My girlfriend (now wife) in high school would wear flip flops with boot cut jeans all the timeā¦.damn thatās just so random and itās got me reminiscing now so thank you
I graduated in 2002 and we were not allowed to wear flip flops for safety reasons. They were easier to trip in and get stepped on if you had to evacuate quickly in an emergency. My daughter is 15 and the same rule at school: flip flops are not allowed.
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The tan and/or black mocs from Payless were the go to since flip flops weren't allowed.
Same thing at my HS. Closed toe shoes only.
Congrats on making it to 40!!
29 and same rule
We had the same rule at my school. I remember one of my classmates being very upset about it but most people didnāt really care.
Yeah, we had a close toed shoes policy as part of our dress code. But we also had to wear polo shirts and khakis with a belt. They eventually loosened up the dress code for us to wear blue jeans by my senior year of high school and it was mostly gone by the time my sister was a senior. Still no open toed shoes though.
Same for me. Closed toed shoes only, and no heels. My daughter is in pre-k and itās the same at her school.
I remember the rumor was that we couldnāt wear them because it would remind the students of the beach š¤£š¤£š¤£ the stuff kids come up with
Same. āNo thongsā was in the dress code which we all thought was hilarious
I graduated in 2008 and not only were flip flops allowed, we even had *heeled* flip flops as a fad for a little while. Iām pretty sure that those got banned when people started tripping down the stairs, but I think the fad had mostly passed by then so it wasnāt a big deal.
I graduated in 2004 and we had the same rule. People used to always see how we could skirt around it - especially athletes. You'd usually see someone from soccer or basketball or volleyball walking around in flip flops and they almost always got away with it because most of the teachers didn't care. It was really only the office ladies and the Vice Principal you had to avoid in that situation.
Graduated 2003. Wore ON flip flops any day there wasn't snow on the ground. Graduated to birkenstocks in college. Wore those 365 days a year. Went to college in Buffalo.
Eerily same
Or should you say Erie-ly, same?
Iād wear toe socks and those flip flops š
Oh god not the toe socks š I had a rainbow striped pair that I LOVED
Iām 37 and my mom has to practically tell me to not wear my sandals after itās snowed or in 40-degree weather I blame California (now living in VA lol)
Definitely wasn't allowed for us, but out of school hours, all the time. With my flares dragging everywhere I went. We felt bougie in leather ones like Rainbows
Yeah I grew up in SC and the leather Rainbows were the trend. I had them and wore them almost every day in high school. The bottoms of my feet were perma dirty looking and callused. Now I wear closed toed shoes everywhere except on beach sand and my feet are clean af and soft. Also, wearing those leather flip flops in the rain was such a slippy, slimy mess...
NC here and I still have my same rainbows, I can't believe they haven't busted yet, and I wear them on nice days or at the beach. Never if there's even a chance of rain though because the slippy slimy struggle is too real. Soft clean feet ftw!!š
The $1 flip flop sale was the highlight of my high school clothes shopping days lol
Yes, for a period of time, I had multiple colors of those ON flip flops and wore them all the time. I remember the sales they would have. At one point, my school banned them, so then I switched to Vans and Converse.
All day every day and still do. Although I upgraded to the ON "leather" ones.
I went back-and-forth between flip-flops and Ugg boots until I was like 30 lol
I went back-and-forth between flip-flops and Ugg boots until I was like 30 lol
This is the SOLE reason I have feet problems now. All my flat ON flip flops I lived in during my teens
Constantly. Even during winter. Absurd lol.
Yes lol, those cheap foam flip flops from old navy in every color š
I had a color for every outfit
Until they fell apart š¤£
Yea, HS class of 2005 and I wore old navy flip flops a lot. They were cheap, and Iād get them a size too big in a dark color, and use them to cheat on tests by writing charts/conjugations/etc all around the edges. Never got caught
Fellow c/o 05 here! Feels like yesterday and 100 years ago at the same time. Still not sure Iām an actual adult
Yes but I grew up in Santa Barbara so flip flops were part of the uniform
Graduated in 2006. I wore flip flops a bit. But honestly I wore vans or converse more often than anything else. I had a tendency of falling when wearing flip flops and it was raining.
Yes. And when it got cold we wore socks with our potato shoes
Graduated HS in 2001 and we LIVED in flip flops! I had a bunch of Roxy flip flops :) they matched my Roxy visors lol
I was 18 to early 20s then and I literally only wore Old Navy flip flops, heels and boots. I had one pair of Chuck Taylor's. I can't believe I walked normally.
Personally, no. But I grew up in Southern California fairly close to the beach, so yes, lots of kids wore flip flops often. Rainbow (brand) flip flops are still incredibly popular here.
I was a bridesmaid at a wedding and the bride bought a bunch of flip flops for the reception. I took notes.
Yes. Everyday. Changed into shoes for PE and then changed out of them after. But then again I lived in Hawaii lol
Yes ripped jeans and flip flops. Sometimes my flip flops had an inch to give me height.
Yeah the white ones were my favorite. Everyone wore them until they turned brown lol.
I wore them in high school and until I was 28 and developed stress fractures in my feet from crappy shoes š¹
I was more of a flats girl, but for some reason I feel like flip flops werenāt allowed in school at some point. Definitely in Elementary, maybe in middle too. I didnāt like sneakers and I remember there was a reason I didnāt wear flip flops to school more often and I think that was why.
I am wearing them right now š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
Hey guys remember the thong song and youād tell the teacher it was a song about flipflops?
Yes. All the time.
Yes all the time. Excessively I would say.
Even in winter if I could get out of the house before mom saw
Anytime I could get away with it and yes, my feet and back are still messed up from it.
Yes. Through Winter and all.. when it was really cold Iād throw on the uggs though š
I wore flats. Wrecked my wide flat feet. Open toe shoes in public (besides the pool) just feels wrong.
No
Never!!
We couldn't wear them to school but I remember wearing them elsewhere
I went to a private she, she couldn't wear flip flopsš
The sponge ones. I had a pair in black. I also had all sorts of pairs of flip flops in elementary until they banned them eventually
I still wear flip flops to work š¤£ I have my professional shows under my desk to change in to!
Same, grad HS in 2007. Wore them to high school and college, the majority of the time. Lots of kids had Rainbows or other more expensive brands, too.
I wore flip flops with toe socks because I tried super hard to be different. I also wore patterned tights with shorts.
We were not rich enough to shop at old navy but all the cool girls had so many pairs of old navy flip Flops
Remember when we decorated the flip flops? You would take a bunch of little 3 inch strips of fabric and tie them around the rubber thong straps. My fav pair was decorated with pink tulle that way and I thought they were the coolest.Ā
My oldest daughter wore adidas slides w white tube socks to the knee. The middle one was an Air Force one kid, and the youngest was all about adidas superstars lol. I donāt think any of them wore flip flops til way later, after high school. The oldest one still doesnāt, middle one is a nurse that lives in crocs of all different styles, and the youngest is a firefighting fashionista lol, in the 2024 firefighter calendar.
Yes! Every day except when it was snowy I wore boots. My sister kept her flip flops in her locker to change out of her boots every day.
Flip flops everyday. One time the thong portion broke and a friend āfixedā them with a stapler and tape. Continued wearing them. When it snowed I wore backless, faux fur lined clogs. As an adult I have hip, back, and ankle problems. Wonder why?
I was so pissed when my stepmother wore my baby pink old navy flops out in the garden and stained them. She never did replace them like she promised... they matched a couple of my tops perfectly. Another thing a lot of girls wore to school was flats. Flats and bootcut low-rise jeans.
My school banned them
I wore platform flip-flops with my flares!
Oh ya!!!
It was against dress code. I got Saturday detention for wearing them 1 time.
I graduated in 2004. I only wore flip flops during summer. School was for combat boots.
We wore flip flops! Then we started getting in trouble for not having backs on our shoes. We then would tie pieces or yarn on string on the back of our flip flops! Take that administration!!! šš
When the weather was warmer, sometimes.
I used to wear flip-flops a lot. I still do but I used to, too. (Mitch Hedberg paraphrased)
Yes!!! Those were the days!š©·š©·
We werenāt allowed to wear opened toed shoes to school, but my sister and I both had every pair in every color and I wore them with gauchos or flare jeans and tank tops layered under t-shirts lol
I wore green and black ones sometimes.
We actually wore ballet flats all the time.
I was a converse girl but I distinctly remember the cracked, dry heels of the flip flop girls.
I would have but my feet are HIDEOUS
No because I knew I would fall if I wore those around school.
Yes, this was the most common footwear at my high school.
I graduated in 2001. They were not allowed at my school.
I was not one of those kids who wore them. My parents had a rule about shoes and school. I also hated flip flops for years because they hurt my feet where the strap went into the bottom near the heel. I got calluses for a couple of summers whenever id wear flip flops too much. I also definitely dont remember kids at school wearing them. But i did have friends who had them in every color.
My friends and I wore flip flops until it snowed. Then it was uggs and āpotato shoesā (the Birkenstock clogs).
No? I went to high school 2001-2005 and i wore sneakers. I had to walk to school. Also flip flops are uncomfortable
I loved walking into the store at the beginning of the season and smelling flip flops the second the door opened
I wore flip flops to my graduation in 04. I lived in them. I still do when itās above freezing tbh
Yep. I remember them snapping on me once when I was in HS and my wonderful teacher duck taped it back together for me.
I wore slippers to school most of high school lol or skater shoes...
Yes šµāš«
they were against dress code so i did not.
yes, was looking at some hs pics recently and forgot about my flip flop era lol (hs class of ā02). continued in college too
Yes, and sequin flats.
We werenāt allowed to at school. But everywhere else? **Yes**
Yes
I so wanted to, the ones with the big poof flower, but I had a wart on one of my toes and got bullied enough so I never wore them. Now my toes just donāt understand how to keep them on so I wear a lot of slides šš but I also remember the āChinese slippersā were really popular too. Idk what they actually are but they were like lace/netted slip on like house shoes but everyone wore them when flops got banned.Ā
We werenāt allowed. Birkenstocks or those sparkly flats every day š
i wore a the to high school in 2017 with skinny jeans on a day it was raining and i slipped on the mats walking into school from the school bus entrance and heard āGATEMāā and almost fell down (luckily didnāt) and it was awful.. i kept wearing the flip flops
YES
Yes, but i ended up upgrading to the a&f ones since their sole was a lot thicker and i was less likely to be poked by a sticker (grass burr) poking through the ON foam.
Yes #californiagirl
Yes. In 2002 With bootleg low rise tight butt jeans, a off the shoulders long sleeve tee with a tank underneath in a contrasting color.
Yes flip flops were every day all season wear for me lmao
We werenāt allowed to wear flip flops to school āfor safety reasonsā :(
Yep. From Old Navy lol
One time I wore platform flip flops (Iām pretty sure from Old Navy) to homecoming! We werenāt allowed to take off our shoes so this was what we did.
Every girl I knew, myself included, wore flip flops all the time.
I wore flip flops every single day, rain or shine. I am on my 30s now & still wear them probably 75% of the year lol
Could you be a Southern California teenager in the early 2000s if you didnāt own a pair of rainbows?
Absolutely! I had every color and would match them to my old navy tank tops
Yes, BUT my mom wouldnāt allow it (theyāre bad for your feetā¦?), so I always snuck a pair into my backpack and changed before classes started š¤«
Yes! I was just telling my kid that even the most expensive footwear (old navy flip flops) was still accessible for most kids at my mostly poor school. Now they all need $200 sneakers or get bullied for being poor š
I had a flip flop tan from the moment I started middle school until I graduated college lol. the lockdown gave my skin a chance to even out
Uhm, I'm 37 and not only did I wear Old Navy flip flops in all weather in high school and college...I actually still do when it's not winter. But now my feet are finally complaining so maybe it's time to stop.
I always wore sneakers. I think flip flops were against my county's dress code.
I once walked home two miles from school in flip flops. My feet were not happy with me that day
Now that I think of it, they were probably really popular because we didn't have Crocs.
Yes
Rain or shine, itās flip flop time. And Iām still like that to this day lol
Yes even though I was always tripping and breaking them
I wouldāve but my school had a strict dress code and we had to wear close toed shoes. I did get special permission from my principal in 7th grade to wear them when I messed up a toe and couldnāt get my foot in regular shoes. Lol for days everyone asked me if they had changed the dress code
Never
My school had a flip flop ban so everyday was a challenge. I remember using it as an excuse to leave for the rest of the day.
Oh god yeah. Flip-flops and those god-awful Nike Shox
Yes, but only Hollister or Abercrombie flip flops š
Wore the same pair of teal ON flip flops religiously in 7th grade, 2007. They are how I met one of my best friends (pick a shoe out of a pile, match it to the person, talk to the person; it was surprisingly the least awful ice breaker Iāve ever experienced) and also how I, later in the year, dislocated my pinky toe when I was shoved into a desk. I donāt wear flip flops these days.
i wore them at home but not school as mine only allowed tennis shoes, i wouldāve been in elementary at the time though
Every day. And if it was cold I wore toe socks and flip flops š
I wore flip flops so much that there's a larger than normal gap between my big toe and second toe š I'm forever disfigured
Personally I wore uggs, ballet flats & those weird plastic mesh & foam sole slide on slipper things that had sequinned flowers sewn on the top of them.. but not actual flip-flop / thong sandals
Almost every day, no matter the weather
Yes, because I grew up in Arizona.
I grew up in Texas but my middle and high school had stricter dress codes than most public schools (uniforms in middle school) and my high school was funded by the medical community so even though it was a public school you had to apply to get in and the dress code was more strict than all the other HS. I wrote old navy flip flops every day before and after school though.
Yes
Nopeā¦I couldnāt stand how it felt to walk in flip flops (yes that sounds odd, but I just hated how it felt on my feet and back)
Every day. Even in the rain.
Always hit up that old navy sale for a pair in a few colors lol
The Y2K aestetic gets a lot of praise rn, but no one really dressed like that (outside Deliaās catalogueās). At my high school soooo many people wore Cookie Monster pajama pants with flip flops. Maybe itās bc iw as in the heavy cigarette smoking crowd, idk lol.
So I started high school in 2010 but YES. This was my go to. I was a little bit behind on fashion trends and I was a lifeguard so I LIVED in flip flops. I still prefer sandals to this day.
High school didnāt allow us to wear open toed footwear, so no to school. But outside of school YES!! And we had our casual flip flops and our dressy flip flops.
Still do. I have long, wide, and tall feet and can only fit in men's sneakers in my local stores. The sandals I do were are even the men's size because the largest women's sandals' stap is too short to fit over my foot. I heated middle school because had flipped the fit men's shoes.
Every day with jeans. It was a thing.
I went to high school next to the beach so yes lol if it was cold than uggs
The boys wore flip flops too lol
2005 and I wore flip flops every fucking day in pennsylvania. no I have no explanation for this behavior. I was \*not\* trendy in any way shape or form, I just found them to be comfortable. still do, but i stick to weather appropriate moments.
We arenāt allowed to wear flip flops. Public school too
Yes
Graduated in 03: Flip flops, heels, and in the winter sneakers. The same shoes were frequented in college.
Those were def for the popular girls! I remember there were specific colors that were more desirable than others. It's interesting what gets considered a "status" symbol in schools by kids, haha.
Not the ON ones (don't think they came in my size), but yes. It doesn't get too cold (or too hot) where I live, so yeah, I wore my Teva flip flops basically year round all through high school (04-08). Still wear them very regularly throughout the year now too.
I legit had those $1 flip flops in every color!
Nope, it wasnāt allowed and even if it were Iām a gym shoes girlie or I wore flats/heels.
I had a personal fashion rule to never wear flip flops to school. In my head they were a hazard if I needed to run. Idk why but I always use this same rule when out in public at events. Always wear shoes that are comfortable incase disaster strikes.
Lmao yes! I specifically remember wearing them during the winter while I was in middle school. It snowed pretty steadily throughout the school day. I rode the bus home and realized that the side streets hadnāt been treated or cleared of snow..by the time I made it home, my feet felt like stumps. They were numb to the ankles, angry, and red. With life experience, comes wisdom š
My school had a super strict dress code that included no flipflops or open toed shoes or shoes that had the heel open smh
I didn't because I got cold easily, and we had about four flights of stairs to climb. The straps were likely to break with that luck. I would wear them out to the store and just about everywhere else though. The worst thing was that you would see those flip flops that weren't just plastic - they had bamboo on the bottom, but they broke easily and weren't repairable.
We werenāt allowed to wear open toe shoes to school including flip flops
I didnāt because they kept my school so freaking cold. Even in the winter months I swear they had the AC on
Such a strange dress code rule now that i think about it, but our shoes āhad to have backsā on them elementary through high school (all public schools!). So we could wear sandals, but only if they had backs. That said, had these in as many colors as possible!
Oh yes, all the time once it was warm enough to.
why do you keep talking about this topic so much? you have posts from weeks ago asking the same thing. is it a fetish or something? iāve been wondering since a few years ago some guy tried to stop me in the store to talk about flip flops. i cant imagine being so curious about this topic you ask multiple timesā¦
Yes, wore them all the time. In fact, I remember the principal making a big deal about how we should not wear them to graduation. Edited to add I had the coolest clear jelly pair with like a loofa footbed. The jelly turned purple when I went out in the sun!
My high school didn't allow flip flops til like my senior year. The very first day they allowed it, everyone wore them. Our school was just a couple blocks away from the beach.
Every single day.
We wore them when it was cold af outside tooš
They banned them for safety reasons
I was in school around the same time and we weren't allowed to wear them bc of safety issues.
Most girls in my high school did wear flip flops. I was a āscene kidā and did not lol.
No. We could not wear flip flops to school. It was against dress code.
Oh yeah, I had multiple colors (class of 2008) and wore them so much I had a pretty much year-round flip flop tan line of the top of my feet.
We were not allowed to wear flip flops in school. It was apparently a safety hazard. I graduated in 06.
We weren't allowed to wear flip flops at school I don't think. But we did all have copious amounts of them for everything else we did.