He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

If they told me to take my shoes off, I'd coach barefoot,

I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers of silk and glass and fur and wood? Too many to count—the graveyards, they are so full these days. You are very wise to let your soles become grubby with mud, to let them grow their own slippers of moss and clay and calluses. This is far preferable to shoes which may become wicked at any moment.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot

The shoes on the other foot now