Stitchdown Shoecast

How Tariffs Are Already Impacting the Footwear Industry, with FDRA CEO Matt Priest

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...

All the Footwear Derek Guy Loves—and a Few He Really Doesn’t—From Bespoke to Workboots

OMG it’s Derek Guy. Derek’s an OG forum junkie turned menswear writer for Put This On, mass publications like The New York Times, and his own always-excellen... Read More...

What Opie Way’s Justin James Lost in Hurricane Helene—and What He Found

In 2019, Justin James started Opie Way, a recraftable sneaker brand made right in Asheville North Carolina, USA, using incredibly high quality materials—something that basically didn’t exist previously. So of course right away covid hit and everyt... Read More...

Skateboarding Legend Jamie Thomas Is Here To Cook Your Shoes in a 300° Oven

Even if you’ve never been on a skateboard before, chances are you’ve worn and loved skate shoes at some point in your life, even if you didn’t realize it—maybe ... Read More...

How to Make Your Leather Footwear Last Literally (Possibly) Forever, With Pure Polish’s Andy Vaughn

The idea that well-made, resoable footwear can last almost literally forever is one of its core allures—but it’s a promise that simply won’t come true if it’s n... Read More...

Shuyler Mowe and Brett Viberg on the Stitchdown Shoecast

Shoecast BONUS Episode Preview: Shop Talk With Brett Viberg & Shuyler Mowe of Nicks Boots

We've been at the Stitchdown Shoecast—our podcast, if you couldn't tell from the clever name—for almost five years now. In that time, there have been requests for specific guests, and topics, and different types of episodes. But the overwhelming requ... Read More...

Holly Henry on the Cowboy Bootmaking Community’s Sustaining Power (Also: Saddles)

I will tell anyone who dares listen that handmade bootmaking—and perhaps specifically, cowboy bootmaking—is the highest form of leatherwork as functional art. A... Read More...

Aki Choklat—College for Creative Studies Detroit—Footwear Design & Making Program

Aki Choklat on Building a Shoemaking College Program From Scratch

In the US, there are schools for everything—of course you can study business, or to become a doctor. But also if you want to be an electrician, or an airplane m... Read More...

Brian Davis—Wooden Sleepers—Tuckahoe NY Vintage Shop

Vintage King Brian Davis of Wooden Sleepers on Why Everything We Buy Sucks These Days

Often, vintage clothing and footwear's defining quality IS quality. As in, its actual construction and materials, how well it was made, way back when. In most cases, it wouldn’t even be here today if it wasn’t. The footwear world we explore on thi... Read More...

Grant Stone - Bristol Loafer - Viberg Waxy Herocandidate

Brett Viberg is Back on the Shoecast, and He’s Bringing Loafers

15 years ago Viberg was pretty firmly Canada’s most hardcore logging and industrial boot company. Since Brett Viberg took over the reins of the nearly 100-year-... Read More...