In Colombia chancleta is a kind of footwear very simple and inexpensive, formed only by the zuela and a band of the same material that covers the fingers and even the medium instep. Also we call them flip-flops, skids, sandals and even slippers ( although the latter now only serve to be called a kind of flip flops that van covered with foam and fabric to protect from the cold ). They are usually of leather or plastic. Until some time ago it was a weapon of moms, to correct children.
It is said so daughter woman, to the little girl. The slippers are shoes that women wear generally and therefore becomes a metonymy. A credible, but unfortunately most accurate history of origin, is that these sandals are footwear, usually economic, simple and poor quality, for what was used until it broke, something the crowd of field used to occur in the middle of the roads, and then routes were irrigated with flip-flops abandoned on both sides; When an unwanted baby was born it was common to leave it on the banks of the roads so someone pick it, and were almost always girls, why to drink them likened them to the abandoned flip-flops.
