Loafers

In Italian, the little crusts of bread you use to wipe the last bit of pasta sauce from your plate are called scarpette – literally “little shoes”.

Flip-flops in Italian are known as ciabatte (”ciabbatas”).

(Flip-flops are also known as infraditte (”between the toes” – ditte in Italian means both fingers and toes), a reference to the litle stalk that you grasp with your toes to stop them sliding off. In Australian English flip-flops are called thongs – similar idea.)