I Did it Barefoot Challenge 2025
The annual #IDidItBarefoot challenge is coming! On April 4-6, 2025, go out barefoot and let us know you did! Barefooting is healthy and legal in all 50 states. It’s also normal in some parts of the world. Be part of the movement, free your feet, and go out barefoot!
Barefoot is Legal Kicks Up the 6th Annual Barefoot Challenge
The 6th annual barefoot challenge from Barefoot is Legal will be held April 2-3, 2022. Help us end the social stigma of going barefoot by going to ANY business barefoot (no socks, tights, or flip flops). Take a selfie from head to bare foot and use hashtag #IDiditBarefootChallenge. See the full press release from founder Dave Kelman […]
Barefoot is Legal Kicks Off its 5th Annual Barefoot Challenge
For the fifth year in a row, Barefoot is Legal is having its barefoot challenge. The challenge is to go barefoot into a business barefoot March 26-28, 2021. Read the entire press release here.
Garage Article About BIL
Apple Paltrow-Martin, Kacey Musgraves and the members of the ‘Barefoot is Legal’ organization say yes.
On a sunny spring morning a week or so ago, I was waiting for the B69 bus in Prospect Heights—a neighborhood where…
Michigan 25 News Article About BIL
Trooper Alyson Burch with the Michigan State Police, Iron Mountain Post says that it’s completely legal!
Trooper Burch says that there is nothing in the Michigan Vehicle Code that requires shoes.
Mel Magazine Article about BIL
The Facebook group that’s dedicated to spreading the gospel that no shoes is no crime
In 1992, Dave Kelman was 20 years old and working a food service job at a hotel in Las Vegas. He wore Doc Martens boots, then a slip-resistant staple among people working in kitchens. Wrapping up a shift one day, he spilled boiling water on his feet, and the scalding liquid got trapped in his shoes. The burns were bad enough to hospitalize him for 13 days.
Philly Voice Article on BIL
The non-profit group Barefoot Is Legal is encouraging Americans to go out in public barefoot this weekend and take a photo for its ‘I Did It Barefoot’ challenge.
It all comes down to standing up for their freedom.
The protagonists in this tale are tens of thousands of people who’d like to go anywhere
BuzzFeed Article About BIL
A Growing Facebook Group Advocates For People Being Barefoot In Public. Here’s All You Need To Know About Them. “Barefoot Is Legal” is a growing community on social media hoping to destigmatize being barefoot everywhere. Its members have their facts and memes. And they’re ready to recruit.
Barefoot Is Legal is featured on the Front Page of San Diego Coast News!
Barefoot Is Legal is Featured on the Front Page of The Coast News ENCINITAS — Jackie Bruner slides off her flip flops behind the counter at Encinitas Boxing and Fitness. Being barefoot, she said, is her preferred mode of existence. Bruner said she prefers being without shoes when she takes strolls with her boyfriend, works […]
The Office where Shoes are Banned
The Office where Shoes are Banned
‘It is what makes me happy’: Lethbridge pair lives the barefoot life
‘It is what makes me happy’: Lethbridge pair lives the barefoot life