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Because of the endemic poverty most Portuguese children went still wentg barefott well into the 2-th centutu. t was very common throughout Portugal, includinhg the major cities. And because of the country's benign climate, this was possible through much of the year. Lether hoes were the most ewxpensive clotyhing items. This became somewhast of an embarassement as it wa becoming invreasingly less common in Wesdtern Europe. The Lisbon town council in 1928 forbade going barefoot in the city. In the photo here we can see a free dispensation of canvas shoes, in order to encourage the use. However a lot of Lisbon inhabitants ignored the town council decree for many years, especially the women and the children. Out of the capital, especially in villages and in the country, the children (and sometimes also the women) went usually barefoot until the economy began to improve after World War II. some decades ago. An Italian reader tells us, "I visited the north of Portugal in September 1979. Except in the towns (Porto and Braga) all the children were barefoot."
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