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To: Snowshoe who wrote (92877)7/25/2012 7:24:12 PM
From: elmatador1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 219713
 
Flip flops are worn everywhere, but in Brazil, literally everyone wears Havaianas flip-flops.

Brazil's well-heeled socialites swear by them. Legions of slum-dwellers from the country's hillside "favelas" don them almost every day. Minimum wage earners behind juice bar counters use them, as do newly minted millionaires and, alarmingly, construction workers.

Havaianas now have a way of cropping up where you least expect them, from Paris' rarified haute couture catwalks to the red carpet at the Oscars.

The iconic flip-flops now rival uber-model Gisele Bundchen for the title of Brazil's most famous export. And though the word "havaianas" means Hawaiian in Portuguese, the flip-flops have come to be something of a symbol for Brazil itself.

ELMAT: I think even in Alaska they might wear them

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/07/25/brazil-half-century-havaianas/#ixzz21gC4klEl
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