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Freenote Cloth x White's Boots Cutter in Burgundy Double Shot

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Freenote x White’s, Attractions Engineers, Oldspeed GMTO

This week we've a new collab from White's and Freenote on the elusive Swing last, experimental attractions engineers at Standard & Strange, and what might just be Oldspeed's best GMTO yet. All that and more below. The archive of previous rou... Read More...

Your Chance To Win a Pair of Crown Northampton’s Remarkable, $1500+ Ernest Wholecut Sneakers

We absolutely love Crown Northampton over here—the (believe it or not) Northampton, England based brand founded and run by 5th-generation shoemaker Chris Woodford. Chris is trained as a full-spectrum bespoke maker, but about half a decade ago deci... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Late Labor Day Sales, Side-Zip Viberg Service Boots (!!), and More

We're a week out from Labor Day now, but we haven't stopped celebrating the people who gave us creature comforts like "weekends" and "child labor laws" by buying boots in their honor. As expected we've got a handful of long-running sales still goi... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Overdyed Clinch Engineers, Sky High Boots from RDT, Chocolate Muleskinner Classic Moc

Suffice it to say it's all about the leathers this week, with a new run of overdyed Clinch engineers at Standard & Strangle, a whole Viberg capsule dedicated to a pleasantly grainy leather from C.F. Stead, a new Muleskinner colorway at Red Wing, ... Read More...

Shoecast Bonus PREVIEW: Brett Viberg Community Q&A at the Viberg NYC Shop

Last week we had our Stitchdown community's first gathering at the new Viberg NYC store—an honestly fabulous-looking little shop in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood that’s full of Viberg’s core classic product like stitchdown 2030 and 310 last service... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Big Viberg Drop, Coupens Back at S&S, 1925 Last at Nicks

In this week's roundup, we're taking a looking at Viberg's first Fall/Winter 25 drop, a very soft and very green trio of new boots from White's, a sleek Brandle last now available on standard Nicks orders, and a whole lot more. Still not satisfied... Read More...

Arch Support Project—Podcast With Division Road's Jason Pecarich and Samuel Wei of Motiv and Radiance Blue

A Look Inside China with Motiv & Arch Support Project’s Samuel Wei

So we’re on break between Shoecast seasons right now—but we’ve been offering more and more bonus episodes to our subscribers (also our private Discord is lit) to keep the Shoecast juice flowing. I’ve really been enjoying making the bonus episodes,... Read More...

Michiya Suzuki Interview—Japanese Boot Culture—Sole Searching Episode 5—Stitchdown

How Did Japan’s Remarkable Bootmaking—and Loving—Culture Arise? And Where’s It Going?

It’s not a stretch to say there is no quality footwear culture quite like Japan’s. But WHY does the Japanese passion for making and wearing great boot and shoes exist? Well, I had to go to Tokyo to find out. As the final piece of our five-part ... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Studded Engineers from Brogue, Unlined Grant Stone Loafers, Endless New Parkhurst

Writing from the road this week, but we're back with a small handful of ways to beat the heat (hint: remove the lining), the return of an archetypal White's makeup from Franklin and Poe, and possibly the fanciest Biltbuck engineers ever. Dive into... Read More...

Stitchdown's Boot Camp 2023—Horween + Tannery Row

12 Essential Horween Footwear Leathers: How They’re Made, and How They Age

The Horween Leather Company has been tanning leather in Chicago for a long, long time—120 years, as of next year. For the duration of that history, it's remained in the hands of five successive generations of Horweens. With Skip Horween currently ... Read More...