These are thongs to me. Now they are flip flops in popular language. I saw a young woman with a rash on the top of her foot and I asked her if she had been wearing thongs. She looked at me as though I were from outer space! I recognized there had been a miscommunication by generation and language, and reworded my question using the words flip flops instead of thongs. She thought it was pretty funny that I thought she was wearing thongs on her feet. How silly.

Speaking of thongs in the current usage of the word, when I had underwear that did that I considered it a problem and threw them away! Now people wear them like that on purpose. How silly......