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What do you call these and where do you come from?

390 replies

MardyBra · 03/02/2014 15:08

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/School_plimsolls.jpg

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harbinger · 10/02/2014 21:27

Plimmies or plimsoles. Was at about 6 schools in Midlands and Yorkshire.

Starballbunny · 10/02/2014 21:27

Daps mid Wales, my London cousins looked Confused and finally worked out my DSIS was asking if they had seen her plimsoles.

mayihaveaboxofchoculaits · 10/02/2014 21:54

daps in wiltshire, but galloshes in carlisle in the 70s. thought the other kids were joking, but no, thats what they were called.

simonthedog · 10/02/2014 21:58

pumps - stoke on trent

snuffykins · 10/02/2014 22:03

Plimsoles. Ireland.

stripes1 · 10/02/2014 22:14

Plimsolls- grew up in London.
Know of a teacher who calls them PE Slippers.

Olddear · 05/04/2014 18:07

In my part of Scotland.......gutties!

LaBelleDameSansPatience · 05/04/2014 18:41

Daps. Dorset

RunnerFive · 05/04/2014 19:52

I love in York now and call them plimsolls but when I was growing up in Belfast they were gutties.

Chloerose75 · 05/04/2014 19:53

Plimsoles or "plimmys"!

whatagreatname · 05/04/2014 19:57

Daps - Somerset

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 05/04/2014 19:59

Me - plimsolls, SE England, they also get called pumps here.
My mum - sand shoes - west coast of Scotland.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 05/04/2014 19:59

Never heard daps except on MN

sarahquilt · 06/04/2014 21:54

I'd call any kind of sports/leisure shoes like that runners. From Republic of Ireland.

PandasAreDumb · 07/04/2014 17:56

Plimsolls, from deepest darkest Essex.

BistoBear · 07/04/2014 18:02

Gnashers, west of Scotland

AnnieIncognito · 09/04/2014 18:05

We called them deck shoes (Canada) but no one ever wore them because they were, and still are, horrible looking shoes.

Fishandjam · 09/04/2014 18:09

Pumps - Shropshire.

Keepthechangeyoufilthyanimal · 09/04/2014 18:09

Plimsolls - East Midlands

fedupandfifty · 09/04/2014 18:12

Daps. South Wales.

NellVarnish · 09/04/2014 18:13

Sandshoes - West of Scotland

AnnaBegins · 09/04/2014 18:48

Plimsolls to my mum (southern african), pumps to my dad/school (derbys/staffs border) - very confusing as a small child!

Converse shoes were called tackies!

Trooperslane · 09/04/2014 18:53

Gutties. Belfast.

Trooperslane · 09/04/2014 18:55

Yy gee! Mutton dummies Grin

BikeRunSki · 09/04/2014 18:59

Plimsols (London) or Sand Shoes (from my dad who was from Sunderland. DH (Sheffield) and DS (we live near Huddersfield and Barnsley) call them Gym Shoes.