My grandmother told me, as a child she and her peers only wore shoes in months "with an R", as in September to April, and walked barefoot the rest of the year.
EDIT: the place was: first Romania, then Hungary, then Romania again, while never leaving her village (so you may guess the time :)
This was still the reality for my grandfather and partially for my parents(in Romania villages), in villages most clothing were made by hand by the women of the house including planting and processing the plants for the fibers used.