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Beckett Simonon Durant Oxford Review: A Sharp-Looking Shoe at an Excellent Price

Beckett Simonon is a brand I was interested in long before I started Stitchdown. Its shoe designs are largely quite handsome, their price (while it's climbed over the years) is a very appealing $199 ($219 for boots, $149 for GATs and other sneakers),... Read More...

The 20 Viberg Instagrams You Absolutely Must Follow

Viberg boots have a fascinating duality to them. They're born of a legitimately rugged past—Viberg was originally a logging boot company when it was founded in 1931—and to this day even the Canadian brand's more casual boots and shoes are built with ... Read More...

How Meermin Makes Quality Shoes at Bafflingly Affordable Prices: The Stitchdown Conversation With Pepe Albaladejo

Meermin is a beautiful conundrum of a shoemaker. The Mallorca-based company crafts shoes for under $200 that far outstrip that price bracket, and certainly what anyone else seems able to pull off. While other companies cover up the fact that they ... Read More...

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White’s Boots Bounty Hunter Review—A Handsomely Rugged Monster of a Boot

As a kid in the 80s, I was hopelessly engrossed in the original Star Wars trilogy. It all began when my Dad showed me Return Of The Jedi for the first time. There, I met Boba Fett. Never mind that he only had about four lines of dialogue—that armor, ... Read More...

Please, PLEASE Include Overhead Shots of Shoes If You’re Selling Them Online: A Rant

So there you are, shopping for shoes online, as even the most ardent "Go to the shop! Support local business!! TRY ON THE SHOES!!!" advocates do in 2019. Something catches your eye. You click into that shoe's page, to get a closer look. You revel ... Read More...

How Cobbler Union Makes High-End Dress Shoes Under $400: The Stitchdown Conversation

Finding extremely high quality dress shoes under $400 is a challenge. In just five years' time, Cobbler Union has established itself as a somewhat quiet but very real player in that space. After serving as CEO of his childhood friend Norman Vilalt... Read More...

The Made-in-the-USA Shoe and Bootmakers You Should be Supporting this July 4th (…and Always)

When America's founding fathers wrote up that constitution of theirs, chances are they were wearing shoes or boots made in America—by a local craftsperson, because that's where everyone got their shoes. Over the next couple hundred-plus years, the... Read More...

Moulded Shoe Inc-One Pair of Feet Must Last a Lifetime

Step Into Moulded Shoe, Timeless Wonder of the Footwear World

Moulded Shoe Inc. is barely more than the width of a garage door side to side, but it’s much, much taller than it is wide. Boxes upon boxes of shoes, including Alden's deeply unique Modified last models, climb up to the sky on your left and right—may... Read More...

Behold The World’s First Shell Cordovan Nikes

Ever seen a pair of Horween shell cordovan Nikes? No, you almost certainly haven't—until now. I know I haven't. And who knows, some may be out there! But Bill Wuyek 100% definitely just created these black and color 8 Horween shell cordovan Nikes—... Read More...

Alden Rare Shell Cordovan Matt Gray Collection

How Matt Gray Assembled Perhaps The World’s Finest Collection of Alden Rare Shell Cordovan Boots

Today, Matt Gray just may have the most impressive collection of Alden rare shell cordovan boots of anyone in the world. But just over two years ago, he didn’t have any—and was barely into shoes at all. “My wife got me my first pair of nice shoes,... Read More...