footwear for the footloose

among all the niceties of our island lifestyle is the use of what we
call slippers (aka thongs, flipflops, shower shoes, island sandals) made
from everything (plastic to woven grass to Italian leather) worn
everywhere, by everyone.  Slippers are sold  in drug stores, gas
stations, Macy's.  And are so pervasive in our culture that there are
sticky notepads and Christmas tree ornaments shaped like them.

I have seen people get off theBus (that's the name:  "theBus") kick off
da slippaz and take off down the street--slippers in the back pocket.  I
like that.  At the mall, people rode the escalators barefoot because the
sign read "no sandals" (they took it down).

Aloha,

Lilinoe