George Curleigh has been president of Red Wing’s heritage division since 2019, in which time he’s been able to enjoy a list of very fun things including a worldwide pandemic, a factory shut-down, a cyber-attack, a periodically dwindling labor force, ... Read More...

100 years ago, more than 120,000 cobbler shops served basically every community in the United States. Today that number is under 3,000, a devastating decline driven by the rise of disposable athletic footwear, an awareness erasure of awareness of wha... Read More...

My Shoecast chat this week is with Vanessa Arroyo, founder and designer of SERES Footwear, a focused line designed from the ground up with high-quality natural materials in a way that’s not often seen in the women’s space Once known as “the weird ... Read More...

This week on the Shoecast my chat is with Clayton Chambers, founder of the Substack newsletter Sprezza and general menswear individual about the world. After running through the footwear signposts in his own life, from churchboy penny loafers to t... Read More...

The one and only Tichoblanco, aka Tichoblancoshoes, aka just plain old Ticho, is BACK. Where’s he been? Well he’ll tell ya all about that. What’s he been up to? The biggest answer to that is: happily grinding on his Østmo x Iron Boots project alon... Read More...

In part two of a tag-team with the Full Grain Podcast (here's part 1), the ever-handsome/charming Phil Kalas of Ashland Leather grills Ben on what to expect at Stitchdown's Boot Camp Chicago 2025 mega-expo and footwear-loving community epicenter this... Read More...