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Originally nobody wore shoes, though in colder countries they might wrap their feet in cold weather. In the last few thousand years shoes gained prevalence through their association with status - making shoes requires skill and wearing them meant you were above such things as [[Too Important to Walk|walking on the ground]]. Thus those who wore shoes were the nobility, and those who aspired to be nobility (this is also how [http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2007/07/11/suffering-for-beauty-graphic-photos-of-chinese-footbinding/ foot-binding became] [http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/the-bygone-practice-of-foot-binding-in-china/ so popular in China]).
It may seem strange nowadays, but being barefoot is entirely natural and was once completely normal in all cultures. While many cultures have yet to fully adopt the idea that walking barefoot is somehow shameful, those that never wear shoes have shrunk to small and usually isolated communities. Some cultures, such as the [[
[[Does Not Like Shoes]] may be a result of this if the character manages to get out of their poverty. A [[Sister Trope]] to [[Bankruptcy Barrel]].
{{examples|Examples }}▼
== Anime and Manga ==▼
* ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'': ▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
** Several shinigami from the poorest districts of the Rukongai grew up barefooted because of the poverty they lived in, including: Rukia and Renji (both from District 78), Yachiru (from District 79) and Kenpachi (from District 80). In the anime, Ikkaku is included in this, although the manga never confirms if this is true or not.
** Becomes a plot point during the final arc - the denizens of Soul Society's worst districts are disappearing en masse, leaving only footprints, including some shoe prints. {{spoiler|It's revealed that people who live within Districts 50-80 are so poverty-stricken, none have been known to wear shoes for 550 years. This clues in [[Awesomeness By Analysis|Lieutenant Kira]] to the fact that the conclusion villagers killed each other is wrong and that entire villages are being slaughtered by shinigami. Thanks to Kira's revelation, it's discovered that, because a huge number of hollows were annihilated by Quincies, [[Mad Scientist|Mayuri's]] men comitted mass murder to avoid a pan-dimensional disaster that could destroy entire worlds: killing spirit-dwelling villagers counter-balanced the destroyed hollows in a case of [[Balancing
* Naturally, ''[[
* [[The Illegal|Taro Maria Sekiutsu]] in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
== [[Film]]--Animated ==
* In [[Disney]]'s ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', the rabbit family exemplify both this trope and [[Barefoot Cartoon
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲* In [[Disney]]'s ''[[Robin Hood (Disney)|Robin Hood]]'', the rabbit family exemplify both this trope and [[Barefoot Cartoon Animals]].
* In ''[[
▲== Literature ==
▲* In ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Literature)|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'', the title character envies Huckleberry Finn for not having to wear shoes. He doesn't seem to realize it's because Huck doesn't have any shoes, or even parents to make him put them on if he did.
* [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''[[Literature/The Castle Of Adventure|The Castle Of Adventure]]'' features a poor village girl who never wears shoes. Gifted her first pair, she keeps them, delighted - and wears them around her neck.
* In the short story "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes" an orphan girl is so poor she only has one shoe. When a wealthy man gives her a pair of shoes she's so happy she goes about telling everyone that now she has two shoes, earning that nickname. ("Goody" being a then-standard shortening of "Goodwife," that is, Miss.)
* Several illustrations of ''[[Les Misérables (
* In ''Little House in Brookfield'' (the first book in "The Caroline Years," a prequel series to the ''[[Little House
* ''[[
* In ''[[Literature/Milkweed|Milkweed]]'', Misha and the other orphans claim everyone is so poor that they check dead corpses for shoes.
* Juana in [[
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Velvet McIntyre because [[Wrestling Doesn't Pay]]. Her boots were stolen in real life so she just decided to wrestle barefoot.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' is barefoot until he becomes a prince.
* Esmeralda from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' is a poor Gypsy girl who runs around barefoot. At the end of the film, she falls in love with the clearly wealthy-looking Captain of the Guard, Phoebus, and in the sequel she inexplicably gains shoes.
* Inverted in ''[[Atlantis:
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Members of various monastic orders swear oaths of poverty, restricting them to only a tiny set of possessions: shoes often not included.
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