Shoes were expensive and were usually worn only during the winter and to Church. The Left foot and the right foot shoe were the same shoe they were worn until them fit your feet. Because there were not the same as the shoes of today they were usually disliked because they hurt your feet until they were "broken in". Usually when they became "broken in" they were usually worn out. Because of how they were made if they were exposed to getting wet for very long they would come apart. This is one reason why you find so many accounts of in letters of soldiers being without shoes because of the wear and tear of marching long distances throught all kinds of grounds and streams.
You usually didn't have two pair of shoes unless you were wealthy so you didn't wear shoe while plowing or doing other "yard chores" you saved your shoes for when you really needed them. So most of them old country boys had callused hard feet to begin with. And unless you had heel plates or hobnails on the slick leather soles and heels you were likely to slip and fall on wooden or slick rocks or inclined surfaces.
Ifg you don't believe me buy a pair of the reproduction Jefferson Bootee worn by re-enactors today and wear them for a week or so.