Which Socks Are The Best Socks? I’m Going to Tell You, Right Now.

I've always considered socks to be deeply important. When I was a kid, my favorite shopping trip with my mother was to the perfectly named Sock Exchange, which ... Read More...

7.7

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 ov... 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 ... 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 w... Read More...

8.3

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

Friendly but strong encouragement: subscribe to Stitchdown’s free newsletter to ensure you never miss a single story As a kid in the 80s, I was hopelessly engr... 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 ver... Read More...

The Made-in-the-USA Shoe and Bootmakers You Should be Supporting

Friendly but strong encouragement: subscribe to Stitchdown’s free newsletter to ensure you never miss a single story When America's founding fathers wrote up t... Read More...

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 ... Read More...

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 ... Read More...

9

Tricker’s Stow: A Two-Year Review of a Very Excellent Country Brogue Boot

When one thinks of “rugged footwear”, it's not uncommon to default to the style of work boots that adorned the feet of the hard-working men that braved the fron... Read More...