Footwear

Sandal-maker KEEN (o.k., the company makes lots of shoes now, too) has just announced an expansion into two new footwear categories, climbing and cycling. You’ll…

No, these foam-based, clog-type, slip-on sandals aren’t Crocs. Just very similar. Some would say rip-off-level similar. In business-speak, though, Cloggens LLC is simply a “fast-follower,”…

Keen and Mion have each sent me a pair of water/canyon/river shoes, respectively the Hood River II sandals and the Fast Canyon hybrid-frogfoot-sandal-thingy. Cool designs…

Heavy hiking boots are a thing of the past for any informed outdoors wanderer. Indeed, the clunky boots of yore — some weighing more than…

Keen Footwear exploded onto the market five years ago, selling millions of its innovative toe-bumper-equipped sandals in its first year of business. Now, Jim Van…

Custom molded footbeds used to be available only through retailers like ski shops, where fitting your foot to an anatomically-unique insole was managed by professionals.…

There are myths and hearsay in backpacking circles of hardy trekkers who go days and weeks on the trail in only a pair of sandals.…

In the early ’90s, Shane Cooper brought together the unlikely bedfellows of bike racing and sock knitting to create Defeet International. Cooper, who was a…

Timberland is a company that realizes business trips are not all work. At the very least, most business travelers have free time at night to…

First, there was the decoy wallet. Then, the money belt came along. Now, Zip It Gear claims to have a better way to keep your…