shoes

What do you do with your old shoes? It isn’t uncommon for a child to outgrow a pair of moccasins, or for an adult to retire a comfortable pair of RunAmocs in favor of a new color combination. But what if those old shoes still have a lot of life left in them? And what […]

This year, the elves are excited to be hosting a special sweepstakes for the back-to-school season! Anyone can enter, and we’ll give the winner a year’s supply of Soft Star shoes, plus a donation of $300 to your school of choice*. We want to keep your feet healthy and help keep schools on their toes. […]

We’re very grateful to all of our wonderful customers who have sent us so many photos of their Softstars. It’s exciting to see where our shoes end up, and sometimes we’re astonished to see how far they’ve traveled around the world. We’d like to share with you some of our favorite photos of Softstars across […]

We have an ongoing dilemma at our workshop because we’re never quite sure how to describe our shoes. For almost three decades we’ve simply said we make minimal shoes for children, but the barefoot running craze of recent years has introduced a whole new world of nomenclature with terms like “barefoot shoes,” “minimalist shoes,” ‘transition […]

Instead of recommending more supportive trail shoes for the rougher, unpredictable surfaces, some doctors suggest the opposite.

How would you like some nice wood paneling on your shoes? No, we’re not modeling our shoes after my father’s 1978 station wagon, but we do have another woody feature: cork! Cork! Gold speckles glimmering in the light. We recently acquired a special limited supply of decorative cork-lined fabric. This thin, smooth material is adorned […]

Understanding how fast children’s feet grow can help with planning to buy shoes that will last. But when do their feet stop growing?