No conversation about the all-time great women's shoe designers is complete without a very long segue into Stuart Weitzman. Born into a shoemaking family who ma... Read More...
We don’t often do shoecast episodes with multiple guests—but when both guests are up and coming bootmakers, both guests honed their skills and found a lovely an... Read More...
It's a tight roundup this week, but a good one: custom configuration Nicks that go to build in two weeks are about as close to summer Christmas as anything shor... Read More...
About a half hour from Reno, there’s a place called Virginia City, Nevada, where everything feels like it’s 1859 and the US’s largest silver deposit was just di... Read More...
Growing up outside Philadelphia, half-Japanese, half-American Seiji McCarthy never once dreamed about making shoes—that spark didn’t ignite until his 30s.
So... Read More...
Barefoot shoes! They make it so it feels like you’re walking barefoot! But while… wearing shoes! And boy are they getting popular.
The basic theory of barefoot... Read More...
All boots look better worn hard and loved deeply.
Not exactly a controversial statement! But we decided to put it to really the test all over again, in the f... Read More...
Matt Priest, President and CEO of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, came on the Shoecast the morning after 104% tariffs on Chinese goods into ... Read More...
Tariffs! The most enjoyable read you’ll have on them all day. (Because we’re somewhat ignoring the larger macroeconomic effects to focus just on boots!)
Fi... Read More...
In the third episode of our SOLE SEARCHING: Tokyo video series, I visited the Clinch Boots retail shop to meet with the brand’s founder, Minoru Matsuura.
But... Read More...
