Stitchdown - Wear Better Shoes

How to Become a Bootmaker, With Oldspeed MFG’s Dave Corey and New River Boot’s Dave Mills

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...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Division Road x Easymoc, New White’s Engineers, Three Great Plain Toe Boots

White's revamps their engineer lineup, Viberg runs rugged boots once more, and three great shops release their take on Alden's plain-toe boot...all that and more down below in this week's roundup. Check out the shoes and boots of weeks past in our... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Nicks Shell Cordovan, Project Pandion Launch, and Some Sales

Despite the summer heat, big boot mania is in full swing, with no shortage of new releases clocking in at a full 8 inches. One of our most interesting releases though, comes in a little closer to the ground. Project Pandion is a...project...that's be... Read More...

Grant Stone—Traveler Penny Loafer—Chestnut Calflf

Penny Loafers: Possibly The Most Comprehensive Guide Ever Published

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, Norwegian shoemaker Nils Tveranger was exposed to the moccasin construction method used o... Read More...

Nicks Boots—Custom Work Boots—Spokane Washington

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: 2020-Last Vibergs, Very Fast Nicks, Scorpion Cowboy Boots, and More

It's a tight roundup this week, but a good one: custom configuration Nicks that go to build in two weeks are about as close to summer Christmas as anything short of the AEST time zone. Plus, we've got the return of honey glazed shell cordovan at Gran... Read More...

Houston Boot Company—Custom Cowboy Boots in Virginia City Nevada—Jake Houston Interview

Custom Cowboy Bootmaker Jake Houston on Preserving Knowledge, León Mexico, and Zebra Races

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...

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...