" I have never worn sandals to school. "
Referred to affectionately as "Jesus Boots" in my home town of Liverpool
Off topic completely:
Lovely observation by Liverpool teacher, Peter Moloney, who actually put together an album of them in the 1960s
Two schoolboys waking past Childwall Abbey in South Liverpool, encountered a bearded, bald monk, in monkish regalia,
One enquired (in very broad Liverpoolese "Ey father, were you in the Ark?"
Ourages, the monk replied, "Of course I wasn't boy"
"Why weren't you drowned then?"
Sorry for the interruption.
Jim Carroll