Founded in North Yorkshire in 2010 by a husband-and-wife team with extensive experience in the outdoor and hiking-boot industry, Freet is a British barefoot brand that designs and makes comfortable, robust, high-performing zero-drop trail-running shoes, as well as walking footwear.
I won’t lie, I’d never heard of them before my editor asked me to test the Howgills, so I was very intrigued to see how their footwear would present itself and perform. There is so much competition in the quality running shoe market these days, with massive names like Hoka releasing new shoes all the time and dominating the space, that it’s hard to see how a small independent brand can get noticed and tread its own path.
