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Enter to Win!
We're teaming up with Green Parent Magazine for a fantastic giveaway!
Enter below for a chance to win a year's worth of handcrafted children's shoes. With flexible soles and spacious toe boxes, these shoes are designed to encourage healthy foot development for kids and natural toe splay for a strong foundation from the ground up. All our flexible, lightweight leather shoes are handcrafted just for you in Oregon, USA with sustainably sourced materials and customizable colors.
The lucky winner will receive one pair of each the following styles: Boot, Sandal, Rambler & Moccasin in child sizes 3-12. You can choose from our collection colors or customize with your child's favorite colors and motifs!
Thanks to everyone who entered. The winner will be announced here soon.
We'll have another contest soon, so be sure you've signed up for our newsletter to learn about the next one.
Official Rules: Open worldwide to anyone 18 years of age or older. Softstar employees and their families are not eligible to win. Void where prohibited by law. Contest ends at midnight Pacific Time on 11 September, 2019. Winner will be randomly selected and contacted via email.
Winner may split order into a maximum of 2 separate orders and must be completed by 31 December, 2019. Prize includes postage to UK but does not include costs which may incur due to exchanges in sizes.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I have purchased over 8 pair of 'minimalist' shoes in the past 3 years...none of them felt like walking barefoot to me......until now. Your leather is soft your soles are flat and my foot is relaxed!!!"
"My entire experience with Softstar has been nothing short of an amazing experience from beginning to end. Will not buy any other shoes...my feet no longer hurt at all."
"This shoe is exactly what you would hope it to be. High quality leather and workmanship in a simple, natural stance running shoes made of all natural materials. Glad I found them."
"I've never had shoes that have fit as well as these or received as many compliments… I wish I had found them sooner!"
"There are no other shoes like Softstar - strong, comfortable, pretty - the best choice of minimal shoes one can get. Thank you for making our lives easier and wonderful!"
"I am loving these shoes! They are just lovely to have on the feet. And I am not easily impressed... There's nothing on the market that I know of that allows full toe splay! To me, it's a beautiful thing to let the toes move with absolute freedom in the shoe. I cannot do that with ANY OTHER of the barefoot shoes."
"I spent SO MANY years searching for a shoe to fit my feet. At last, you have given me such a shoe! I am convinced that had I met this shoe 30 years ago, I would not have the deformed feet I have now, nor would I have had surgery done on one of them. Abundant thanks for this design that honors my feet."
"These shoes are absolute perfection… The toe box finally allows my pinky toe and big toe to splay naturally and has taken away all previous foot pain… My feet will accept nothing less now."
"Finally something I will wear to work that is truly foot shaped… I usually take my shoes off as soon as I arrive home. I was so comfortable in these that I didn't think about it, and I left them on for hours into the evening."
"These are fantastic. Softstar showed themselves as the best minimal shoe company on the market with these. Functionally, they are the best fitting shoes I own, and they are the most stylish."
"Blown away. These should be the standard. I work at a physio clinic and see multiple people come in with foot pain (bunions, flat feet, plantar fasciitis) and it's mostly because of the effects of improper footwear over time... These shoes are the perfect solution."
"These are the best shoes I've ever owned. FINALLY A TOE BOX SHAPED LIKE A HEALTHY FOOT… I can wear my toe separators in these without any squishing or pressure against the sides of the shoe. Finally, finally, finally... someone prioritized function over form in creating a shoe that feels great to wear."