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Engineered Garments x Alden - Algonquin V-Tip Blucher - Color 8 Shell

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Clinch Monkeys, Engineered Garments x Alden, Iron Heart Wescos, and More

Another year, another Met Gala, and we're still waiting to see the 55 last hit the red carpet. Timberland though, did make it—with some stratospheric heels and no shortage of speed hooks. Back in welt-land we've got a some new two-tone Clinch at Stan... Read More...

Seiji McCarthy Interview—Exceptional Bespoke Shoemaker in Tokyo

Seiji McCarthy is Hand-Making Some of the World’s Greatest American Shoes—In Japan

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 when it did, like any normal person, he left his normal-person job, talked his way into s... Read More...

Division Road x Trickers - Dark rust Chamois - Hero (1)

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: DR x Tricker’s, Oak Street Stitchdown, New Nicks Last

A 14-deep roundup with Clinch, a new collab from Division Road and Tricker's a Brandle last available at Nicks for the first time.... Read More...

Is Turriff Functional Footwear Making the Best-Quality Barefoot Shoe on the Market?

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 or minimalist shoes is: regular shoes constrain our feet, not allowing them to spread and... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Natural CXL Indys Finally Return, Flat Head Loggers, Rancourt’s Pastel Boat Shoes

We're closing out April strong with a mess of new boots, including Viberg's third Spring drop, some great lace-to-toes from the Flat Head, a new model from Rancourt, and more in the latest: Shoes 'n' Boots of the week. Check out all of our previou... Read More...

Lofgren - Donkey Puncher - Natural Chromexcel Roughout

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Tall Crocketts at Division Road, McCoy’s Engineers, Guidi RDT, and More

So yeah...these tariffs. So much fun! How might they affect things in terms of footwear pricing and just the overall industry? It's impossible to say exactly what's going to happen at this point, but our Shoecast chat with FDRA head man Matt Priest a... Read More...

stitchdown patina thunderome winners 2024 2025

Every Single Winner from the 2024-25 Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome

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 fouth-annual Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome presented by Grant Stone and Nicks Boots Near... Read More...

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 the US hit in a rapidly-moving-target trade war with the United States and just about ever... Read More...

Viberg 2030 BCT Herocandidate Black Waxed Flesh

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Slimmed-Down Nicks Engineers, Loads of Alden, and More

The latest Shoes 'n' Boots of the Week is brought to you by the fine fine city of Chicago, which we are shouting out for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with this year's Boot Camp mega-expo being hosted there on Nov. 8th 2025. (...see you ... Read More...

How Tariffs Will Affect The Quality Footwear Industry—The First of Probably Too Many Posts

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!) First, Here’s How Tariffs Essentially Work 1. A company (retail shop, brand, whatever) impo... Read More...