The penny loafer's early history is a little murky; people just aren’t great at recording this stuff. But the consensus seems to be that in the 1930s,... Read More...
Launching two years ago with the Nora plain toe boot, Grant Stone's women's line is something of an outlier: Goodyear welted boots on patterns and lasts designe... Read More...
There’s an old story over at Nicks Boots that goes like this:
A longtime customer named Robert walked into Nicks’ Spokane workshop one day, in need of some b... Read More...
Just about one year ago, Luke Kolbie and his business partner Joe Julian took over ownership of 125-year-old Russell Moccasin: the Berlin, Wisconsin bookmaker t... Read More...
About three years ago, I received my first pair two pairs from Onderhoud Handmade and was completely blown away. The ways in which the brand and its founder/boo... Read More...
When I was a kid, I wore out my The Rocketeer VHS tape. That rare Disney movie that also features lots of Nazis, it really has it all: mob-boss Paul Sorvino, ca... Read More...
Greg Cordeiro is our kind of shoe nerd. And the dude has been around.
After getting his start as an intern at Puma before shifting over to design work for Ti... Read More...
Chelsea boots are a major force in the footwear world. Historically, they've been The Thing at certain points in the US and Europe (see: Beatles, The). Currentl... Read More...
Crockett & Jones is one of the ultimate representations of British shoemaking royalty: the Northamptonshire maker has been crafting some of the world's fine... Read More...
In tomorrow’s Shoecast episode, Ticho and I take look back at 2021, and make a few (reasonably?) bold predictions about 2022 and beyond. One is something I’d ab... Read More...
