Green’s Dictionary of Slang

washicong(s) n.

also watchekong(s)
[Chi. hua xie kong hong, lit. ‘flower shoes (which are) full of holes’; ‘this cheap footwear was most popular among the chinese indentured labourers in Trin. in the late 19C’ (Allsopp, Dict. Caribbean English Usage, 1996)]

(W.I., Gren./Trin.) sandals, plimsolls; spec. sandals with open-work in the pattern of a flower.

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[WI]S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 20: […] for the test have on a old grey tropical suit and a pair of watchekong and no overcoat or muffler.
M. Hodge Crick Crack, Money 89: [...] called things by their proper names, never saying ‘washicong’ for plimsoll.