anufactured there by Skellerup rival Dunlop in 1960. Thongs became popular there after being worn by the ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු Olympic swimming team at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956.In the UK and U.S. they are most commonly known as flip-flops.Flip-flops may have been familiar in the United States in the mid-19th century. An 1861 letter to the editor of The New York Times mentioned poorly equipped troops in the Seventh Regiment Volunteers wearing "flip-flaps": "The men were not in uniform, but very poorly dressed, — in many cases with flip-flap shoes. The business-like air with which they marched rapidly through the deep mud of the Third-avenue was the more remarkable." Later the letter reads: "The men have not yet been supplied with shoes, and yet still march flip-flop. Why?"[6]  The letter does not describe the men's shoes in detail, so it is not clear whether it is referring to footwear of the flip-flop style, or perhaps to the poor state of their shoes.Thongs now come in a variet