THONGS

IN THE BEGINNING

The Hittites are the first recorded shoe wearers about 4,000 years ago and this spread to Egypt about their middle kingdom.The tomb guard , below, was found in  King Tutankhamun’s tomb and is wearing  the common  woven reed model. 

KING TUT'S THONGS FOUND IN HIS TOMB
Shown above are some of King Tut's personal collection found in his tomb. The showy ones at top come with images of Egypt's enemies for the king to walk on
"Beauty in snow"painted by Utagawa Kunimasa in Japan's early 1800's Bunka Period . It shows the 'Beauty' wearing Geta thongs, which kept your feet and clothes out of the mud and snow. They came with one, two, or three risers.

HOW MUCH DO THEY COST?

$ Free DIY using old car tyre - Discount store $2.50
$16.00 Piping Hot rubber and $167.00 Birkenstocks in wood
$8.00 training thongs compared to $1,255.00 trainers
Straw woven Waraji and the more formal Zori Japanese styles
Californian artist, David Palmer hand painted these one-off thongs in 2011; and with a 6 gram, 18 carat solid gold  brand name implant, the Chipkos™ thongs were priced at  $18,000. Following the Indian tradition of squared thongs , Chipkos ™ launched the Square Feet program which means that Chipkos™ will preserve 100,000 Square Feet of Costa Rican rainforest with the purchase 

THE THING THAT MAKES A SHOE A THONG

Indian 'Padukas' take the plugger theme too far to call them thongs
Bumnosed double pluggers

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO WITH THEM

DAVID Day spent half a year collecting thongs from the beach and with 1500 thongs, built a 2.4m high, 5.4m long wave sculpture in Mackay

After decorating the outside wall of an art gallery, this Tom Risley whale collage made from thongs and other found jetsam was donated to the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

A whale tail from Townsville's Ephemera

The Ephemera is a biennial sculpture festival .

Although it is multi-media thongs often feature.

Handy tip when old soles wear through. This image was found on web page #plus613
From Sao Paolo comes Forentijn Hofman’s ‘fat monkey' for pixelfest, Brasil
John Dahlsen created "Thongs" which featured in a Huffpost coverage of Anchorage Museum
‘Thong Totem’ by John Dahlsen

Wynne Prize finalist 2000 :: Art Gallery NSW

Mary Pavicich brightened up Port Macquarie in 2013
Another Whale Tail from Townsville
Thong throwing is a standard Australia Day feature in many places inoz and os
Sydney-siders flock to the beaches on Australia Day for the annual 'Havianas Thong Challenge'. Beaches take turns in trying to break the world record for the longest line of giant inflatable thongs in open water
The ultimate sporting achievement award; Yellow, white and brownish thong gongs
Kylie Minogue found a thong made the ultimate accessory for her visit to the Sydney Olympics closing ceremony
Great idea near the bar b que -maybe your favourite herb in one and stubby holder in the other

Thong Warrior, Franky from Housos, uses the thong slap for attack, defence, punishment and a bit of fun. Inset shows one of N.S.W’s finest, copping a flying thong slap from Franky as a delaying tactic.

Thong slapping, as a penalty, has moved into the realm of party games

Marathon Validity  Proven

marathon run in thongs

Former ironman, Sam Hensen-Thompson raising money for Perth Children’s Hospital.

Ben Ferris is running 300km in just his thongs, a shirt and a pair of budgie smugglers to raise money for farmers.

Wearing thongs, Keith Levasseur   completed the Baltimore Marathon in 2:46:58