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Nicks x Stitchdown Bromley Boot—Pacific Waxed Flesh + Light Grey Cypress

The First-Ever Nicks Boots x Stitchdown Collaboration is Here (and It’s Chonky)

It was finally just time, I suppose. After nearly seven years of extensively covering the excellent bootmaker Nicks Boots—who's been making some of the world's most serious boots in Spokane since 1964—and kicking around ideas for over half of that... Read More...

CONSTANTLY UPDATED: Best Black Friday 2025 Sales on Shoes, Boots, Denim, and Menswear

We are back! To once again track the best Black Friday (etc) sales on shoes, boots, and denim, knitwear, outerwear, and other Stuff That's Made Damn Well we're excited about. As always, we will be updating this list constantly, so please check bac... Read More...

Red Wing Heritage President George Curleigh on Retail, Time Capsules, and The Red Wing Way

George Curleigh has been president of Red Wing’s heritage division since 2019, in which time he’s been able to enjoy a list of very fun things including a worldwide pandemic, a factory shut-down, a cyber-attack, a periodically dwindling labor force, ... Read More...

Rolling Dub Trio Loro in Black Horsebutt

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Rose Anvil x Russell Mocs, RDT Loros, and more

We're only six short days from what might just be the largest and most endearing boot-related gathering in the dozen millenia since we invented agriculture and started keeping track of things like that. And if any archeologists want to fact check us ... Read More...

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How to Revive The Cobbling Industry? Teach it in High School—and it’s Already Working.

100 years ago, more than 120,000 cobbler shops served basically every community in the United States. Today that number is under 3,000, a devastating decline driven by the rise of disposable athletic footwear, an awareness erasure of awareness of wha... Read More...

Iron Boots 'The Iron Boondocker' in Crust Double Shot Roughout

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Nicks x Division Road, Freenote x White’s, 3Sixteen Zip Boots, and More

After a few weeks off (we're people!) this is our deepest roundup in some time—24 new pairs. We're running the full spectrum from trad to fashion collabs this week, with Nicks x Division Road work boots and Freenote x White's Oxfords, a brand new Vib... Read More...

SERES Founder Vanessa Arroyo on León, Mexico’s Remarkable Shoemaking Culture

My Shoecast chat this week is with Vanessa Arroyo, founder and designer of SERES Footwear, a focused line designed from the ground up with high-quality natural materials in a way that’s not often seen in the women’s space Once known as “the weird ... Read More...

Sprezza’s Clayton Chambers on Timeless Loafers, Gorpy Boots, and Quality

This week on the Shoecast my chat is with Clayton Chambers, founder of the Substack newsletter Sprezza and general menswear individual about the world. After running through the footwear signposts in his own life, from churchboy penny loafers to t... Read More...

Everything You Need To Know About How Leather is Tanned

Three years ago Phil Kalas, former Horween Leather employee and current owner of Ashland Leather, sat down with Ben on the Shoecast to tell us (almost) literally everything we needed to know about leather. Since then, we've found ourselves referri... Read More...

Ticho is BACK on the Shoecast to Talk Østmo x Iron Boots’ Lore—and Next Step

The one and only Tichoblanco, aka Tichoblancoshoes, aka just plain old Ticho, is BACK. Where’s he been? Well he’ll tell ya all about that. What’s he been up to? The biggest answer to that is: happily grinding on his Østmo x Iron Boots project alon... Read More...