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Alden Roy Plain Toe Boot With Dainite Outsole

I Resoled My Alden Plain Toe Boots With Dainite—Here’s How They Came Out

My Alden Roy boots are probably my favorite piece of footwear that I own. For a long time, I was on a quest to find the ultimate brown plain-toe boot: not overly dressy but not un-dressy, goes with everything, displays a perfectly simple shape wit... Read More...

This Doctor X-Rayed His Red Wing Boots and I’m Very Glad He Did

Cool doctors are the best doctors. A doctor who loves quality shoes and boots? Pretty good start. A doctor who uses his downtime to take x-ray images of his Red Wing boots? Now we're talking. Elmer, a Filipino anesthesiologist/boot and leather nut... Read More...

Meet Østmo’s Lars Jensen, Perhaps the World’s Most Interesting Bootmaker: The Stitchdown Conversation

Lars Jensen makes boots—whatever boots he wants, when he wants, exactly how he wants to. And then he sells those boots, to a very lucky person. The lushly bearded Norwegian behind Østmo does things a little differently throughout his life—unless mos... Read More...

Viberg Service Boots and Derbies and Oxfords

Plenty More on What Viberg Has Coming Up: A Chat With Guy Ferguson

Last week I published a preview of what Canadian boot maestro Viberg has planned for 2020—full of plenty information on release schedules, new models, and fun new leathers. I also recently spoke at length with Viberg's brand director Guy Ferguson.... Read More...

Viberg Boots and Shoes Releasing in 2020

A Look at Where Viberg is Taking Things in 2020

Last week I got an extended preview of Viberg's plans for 2020—meaning the year after this year, not an exciting new last they're developing. I spent a ton of time working my way through the upcoming collections, speaking with Viberg's brand direc... Read More...

Socks-Chup, Smartwool, Darn Tough, Wigwam, Pendleton

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 saw socks and underwear climb probably 30 feet high in a massive footprint of a space. Eh,... Read More...

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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 over the years) is a very appealing $199 ($219 for boots, $149 for GATs and other sneakers),... 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 1931—and to this day even the Canadian brand's more casual boots and shoes are built with ... 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 what anyone else seems able to pull off. While other companies cover up the fact that they ... Read More...

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

As a kid in the 80s, I was hopelessly engrossed in the original Star Wars trilogy. It all began when my Dad showed me Return Of The Jedi for the first time. There, I met Boba Fett. Never mind that he only had about four lines of dialogue—that armor, ... Read More...