Selipar Jepun

The Plain Slippers.


In America, Flip-flops or sometimes Thongs. But thongs can always be confused with something else.

In Britain, they don’t have these. It’s too cold to leave your feet unwrapped like that. So they don’t have a name for it. Slippers, in Britain, are the ones that you use before bed, usually adorned with fluffed up cartoony shapes, so as to trap the little heat that may be exerted around the feet.

In Malaysia, Selipar Jepun (Japanese Slippers – Japanese, probably because it was introduced by Japanese Army during those days. Also, Japanese ladies in kimonos were always portrayed with similar looking footwear then. Selipar, is of course, the Malay tongue of the word slipper which was then adopted into the language)

Here, how they look like.

I particularly like the slipper in the photo above for a few reasons. They're made by Asadi. Funny thing is, we used to think of them as one of the bad industry copiers (in this case that German sports apparel producer Adisomething), but they've certainly come a long way and managed to develop a brand  name that stands on its own.


The best reason : I have used the pair for almost 3 years now. I mean uuuuuuuuuused them. And still nowhere near its expiry point.