Although researchers showed their high interest in culture of the ethnographic area of Chodsko, A text by a regional associate of the Czech Ethnological Society dating back to 1961 about wooden shoes (clogs) that were still commonly worn in Czech countryside at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries; in the first third of the 20th century, they were only worn by older people, or by the destitute. The shoes were manufactured in south and south-west Bohemia in particular, and were used above all as work shoes by agricultural workers and by the inhabitants of villages in general; children used to wear them on their way to school (also in winter). The author also presents several witnesses´ memories of their childhood, when they wore clogs
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