(1) Loafers were worn sockless, with a few inches of tanned ankle.
(2) "We were meant to get €22 [£17] a day, minus €3 for food and €3 for our living quarters, but every week we were told: 'Next week we'll pay you', and every month it never happened," he says, his white hand-me-down leather shoes slipping from sockless feet.
(3) For the rest of us, it's a sweating, misery-making endurance test, a months-long battle to keep cool while keeping 90% of our badly depilated, instantly-lobstered flesh covered and experimenting with different but equally futile ways of keeping our inner thighs and sockless feet unchafed.