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The best barefoot shoes are designed to align with the natural shape of your foot as closely as possible—and to mimic the sensation of walking barefoot on the ground. Unlike traditional footwear ...

After walking over 3.5 million steps on trips this year, our writer picked favorites, from ‘barefoot’ styles for cafe hopping to pillowy sneakers for castle touring.

but it's still warm and waterproof, and its light weight makes it feel very freeing to hike in. Vivobarefoot is perhaps the biggest proponent of the barefoot shoe movement. While most of today's ...