Fleet & Foster is a comfort footwear range rather than field kit — leather sandals, lightweight casual shoes, touch-fasten styles and memory foam slippers, mostly in ladies' fittings. It sits alongside the main catalogue rather than in it.
It is genuinely good at one thing the technical brands ignore: easy-on fastening. The Capa slipper, the Elaine waterproof shoe and the Julie sandal all use touch fastening, which matters for anyone who cannot comfortably manage laces or a buckle, and which lets you adjust across the day as feet swell.
The leather sandals — Julie, Begonia — will take a shape after a few wears, but buy them to fit rather than expecting them to stretch a size.
For walking and hill footwear go to ladies' hiking shoes, ladies' hiking boots or all footwear.
