I hate shoes so I'm usually barefoot, winter or summer. In extreme cases when my feet are just freezing I have a pair of fleece socks I'll wear, comfy and loose. I was ALWAYS barefoot as a kid and have some nasty scars on one of my feet where I stepped on a broken bottle and sliced my foot open right where the big toe meets my foot and also my iner arch. Had to have many, many stitches and still remember it to this day.....yet I still never wear shoes if I can help it. I'll even run out to the car barefoot in the winter if I need something, it's such a waste of time to put on socks and shoes for a 30 second trip outside.
It doesn't feel right pushing the pedal with anything on my feet, I feel like a clod if I try to sew with my shoes on. Maybe it's all in my head but socks and shoes make me feel so confined.