Pumps
They are pumps. Why would anyone call them anything else?
The selling name I believe….plimsolls maybe.
Embarrising is what I called them to my mum
Same, the girl I knew was from Llanelli but she didn't know why they were called daps, or why I called them pumps.I knew a welsh girl who used to call them 'Daps'
Apparantly the initials of the rubber factory in Bristol where the soles were made as Dunlop Athletic Plimsolls.
Also was calling them plimsolls in any way related to the plimsoll line on ships?