Cop-cop

Marash Girl was just talking to Marash Boy yesterday about where she had acquired the tiny shoes similar to those pictured on the left in the photo on the right. (You got that?  the shoes on the left in the photo on the right?) It was many years ago, when a friend gifted those miniature shoes to Marash Girl, a friend from Iraq who was attending M.I.T. and was a member of the M.I.T. Arab Club. (He said Marash Girl reminded him of the women back home, even though Marash Girl didn't call herself Marash Girl in those days.  Who knows why.  Maybe because of her Armenian heritage or maybe because she looked like folks in Iraq or maybe because of the Middle Eastern hospitality she practiced?) Marash Girl had never seen such shoes, although she was told that all the women in Iraq wore them.  Her friend from Iraq called them "cop-cop"s.  But as far as the walking utility of the shoes pictured in that photo goes, "not very far," is Marash Girl's guess.
And from Cesar Jacques Chekijian on Facebook we learn the following about these slippers:

Aintab Habbab/Khabbab. Ancient wooden slippers that were common footwear. They were worn past WW-I. The low ones around the house and public baths. The tall/platform ones for outdoors, to walk in the mud or snow.

Aintab Habbab/Khabbab. Ancient wooden slippers that were common footwear. They were worn past WW-I. ...