No conversation about the all-time great women's shoe designers is complete without a very long segue into Stuart Weitzman. Born into a shoemaking family who manufactured for decades in longtime US shoemaking hub Haverhill, Massachusetts, Weitzman qu... Read More...

We don’t often do shoecast episodes with multiple guests—but when both guests are up and coming bootmakers, both guests honed their skills and found a lovely and helpful bookmaking community in our Stitchdown Premium Discord, and both guests are name... Read More...

About a half hour from Reno, there’s a place called Virginia City, Nevada, where everything feels like it’s 1859 and the US’s largest silver deposit was just discovered. The bars say "saloon," and look the part. The cemetery is definitely haunted. An... Read More...

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...