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.

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 :)