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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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BakingBad · 06/02/2014 23:48

Gym shoes or sand shoes - from east Scotland.

Bibblebobbleparsnip · 06/02/2014 23:49

Plimsolls - Sheffield, South Yorkshire when growing up...

EBearhug · 06/02/2014 23:57

Plimsolls, Dorset. Got a bit confused first time friend from S. Wales started going on about daps.

diabolo · 07/02/2014 10:25

Pumps. From Leeds, West Yorkshire

NCISaddict · 07/02/2014 10:29

Plimsolls, from Dorset but Mother was from Lancashire and always called them plimsolls

MinnesotaNice · 07/02/2014 10:33

Closest would be canvas shoes. From the US.

workshyfop · 07/02/2014 10:35

Sand shoes. From NE England.

PuddingAndHotMilk · 07/02/2014 10:36

Sandshoes. Northumberland x

SuperLemonCrush · 07/02/2014 10:39

Gym shoes (east coast scotland) but also know gutties/black dabs as terms.

Trills · 07/02/2014 10:40

Daps - West Country.

Trills · 07/02/2014 10:41

They are for doing PE in when you are in primary school. Not worn by anyone else at any other time.

Stinkystinkypoopoohead · 07/02/2014 10:41

Another vote for gutties from Northern Ireland Smile

SuperLemonCrush · 07/02/2014 10:41

I think plimsoll has a navy connection? More common in areas with a strong link to RN?

flakjacket · 07/02/2014 10:44

Daps. When my children started school here in Gloucestershire and they were on the uniform list, I had to phone the school secretary to ask what they were Blush. They were plimsolls when I was a child in Essex.

AnnoyedByAlfieBear · 07/02/2014 10:46

Plimsolls, London.

hootloop · 07/02/2014 10:46

Those are pumps.
These are plimsolls www.theschoolwearspecialists.co.uk/white-lace-up-plimsolls/p151
Totally different.
I am from Solihull, West Midlands.

Gatekeeper · 07/02/2014 10:47

used to call them sand shoes when I was a kid at junior school back in the 70's; now call them plimsoles

NE England

bouquetofpencils · 07/02/2014 10:48

Pumps. Lancashire.

Nottheshrinkingcapgrandpa · 07/02/2014 10:48

plimsolls - SE

mawbroon · 07/02/2014 10:48

Gym shoes - Edinburgh

but

when I was a kid further north, we called them Gymmies.

AnneWentworth · 07/02/2014 10:49

Plimsolls - London

CocktailQueen · 07/02/2014 10:49

gymmies - Aberdeen

BitOutOfPractice · 07/02/2014 10:49

Pumps. West Midlands

FossilMum · 07/02/2014 10:50

Ah, finally some people who have heard of daps! We had daps growing up near Bristol.
Mum had plimsolls in Birmingham.
DS has pumps in Yorkshire.

Thistledew · 07/02/2014 10:54

Norfolk - Plimsolls. I have a vague recollection of some people calling them 'bumpers' as well.