Surrender Your Jandals

Last time I was in New Zealand, my friends and I stopped in Cardrona, at the Bra Fence, an unexplained roadside tribute to the ladies’ undergarment. It no longer exists today, so amuse yourself with these photos I took back in 2006.

This most recent trip, we drove through the small North Island town of Kaeo and found a sort-of successor: the Jandal Fence. (New Zealanders inexplicably use the term jandal for what we in California would call sandal or more specifically flip-flop. Wiktionary posits that jandal could be a blend of sandal and Japanese.)

Overall, not as risqué and overall not as good, but hey — it’s stuff you wear posted on a fence, so you have to like it. Otherwise they kick you out of New Zealand.

There’s a joke somewhere in here about flip-flips and bras being designed to limit that kind of motion, but I can’t quite pull it together.