Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

im in my early 50's, they have always been trainers

Daps are them black plimsole things you wear in school

You are right about the different definitions. However, when I was a kid growing up in the 60s, there was only daps available (black or white and elasticated or lace-up). Trainers came on the scene in the mid to late 70s.

[splott parker]

You are right about the different definitions. However, when I was a kid growing up in the 60s, there was only daps available (black or white and elasticated or lace-up). Trainers came on the scene in the mid to late 70s.

Trainers are just a different type of dap, but they’re still daps. Flares are still trousers, anoraks are still coats, boxers are still underpants, trainers are still daps. Daps is a Cardiff traditional word, much like mitching (used in Ireland as well), afters for pudding or dessert, cobs for hard bread buns, baps for soft bread buns (I think buns is what some other places call them), gullies for the cut through between houses etc etc. It’d be a crime to let our colloquialisms go, it’s part of the identities of different parts of the country, local dialects and sayings should be used and preserved, they’re part of who we are and where we’re from.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Trainers are just a different type of dap, but they’re still daps. Flares are still trousers, anoraks are still coats, boxers are still underpants, trainers are still daps. Daps is a Cardiff traditional word, much like mitching (used in Ireland as well), afters for pudding or dessert, cobs for hard bread buns, baps for soft bread buns (I think buns is what some other places call them), gullies for the cut through between houses etc etc. It’d be a crime to let our colloquialisms go, it’s part of the identities of different parts of the country, local dialects and sayings should be used and preserved, they’re part of who we are and where we’re from.

Nope, I'm not 'aving that!

In the 80s when football fashions took off, no one would ever say.. "I like your daps" to someone who happened to be wearing a pair of Diadora Borg Elite or Adidas Forest Hills, for example. Such footwear was referred to as 'trainers' only.

[splott parker]

Nope, I'm not 'aving that!

In the 80s when football fashions took off, no one would ever say.. "I like your daps" to someone who happened to be wearing a pair of Diadora Borg Elite or Adidas Forest Hills, for example. Such footwear was referred to as 'trainers' only.

No-one?? I’ve always referred to them as daps as do others. As mentioned earlier, trainers are people with the magic sponge such as Lew Clayton, that squeaky fecker down west was referred to as magic daps, not magic trainers (that was Lew Clayton again)

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Trainers are just a different type of dap, but they’re still daps. Flares are still trousers, anoraks are still coats, boxers are still underpants, trainers are still daps. Daps is a Cardiff traditional word, much like mitching (used in Ireland as well), afters for pudding or dessert, cobs for hard bread buns, baps for soft bread buns (I think buns is what some other places call them), gullies for the cut through between houses etc etc. It’d be a crime to let our colloquialisms go, it’s part of the identities of different parts of the country, local dialects and sayings should be used and preserved, they’re part of who we are and where we’re from.

The word 'daps' is used widely on this side of the Bristol Channel too. In fact, the first recorded use of it in print seems to have been in 'The Western Daily Press', a publication covering Somerset, Gloucester and Wiltshire.

[blue matt]

You are right about the different definitions. However, when I was a kid growing up in the 60s, there was only daps available (black or white and elasticated or lace-up). Trainers came on the scene in the mid to late 70s.

yea, always been Trainers to me, thought the Nikes are sneakers now, the American influence, but my Adidas, Vans and Converse are trainers, doesnt make sense really

[xsnaggle]

You are right about the different definitions. However, when I was a kid growing up in the 60s, there was only daps available (black or white and elasticated or lace-up). Trainers came on the scene in the mid to late 70s.

Not only daps in the 60s. What about baseball boots, which have made a comeback in recent years?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Not only daps in the 60s. What about baseball boots, which have made a comeback in recent years?

I had a pair. We used to call them 'bumpers'.