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Some Pretty Hot Memorial Day Shoe and Boot Sales Right Here

There are some pretty good shoe and boot sales out there for Memorial Day! Let's get right into it. I'll try to update if anything else good comes across the wire. Carmina: 10% off All Everything Including Custom and Outlet Mallorca's finest—which ... Read More...

The 30 Alden Instagrams You Absolutely Must Follow

If you never saw all the posts about Fortnite and K-Pop and duck faces (do people still do those?), you might think that Instagram was created specifically so for pictures of Alden shoes and boots. While countless niche communities give hungry shoe l... Read More...

The Stitchdown Conversation: Chris Warren of Wesco Boots

Wesco boots are built for life—and Chris Warren's own life has been plenty full of them. Warren took his first job with the 101-year-old bootmaker because his father swore by his Wesco boots while working as a millwright. 17 years later, he's a decad... Read More...

JM Weston x Yohei Fukuda 598 Demi-Chasse

Yohei Fukuda and J.M. Weston Team Up to Create Half-Hunt Magic

Yohei Fukuda creates iconic works of art that just so happen go on your feet. Now the Japanese master is teaming up with French standard-bearer J.M. Weston in a rarely seen, very welcomed collaboration between two of the most powerful forces in fine ... Read More...

Hey So What’s Everyone Wearing at the Viberg Sample Sale?

For four days in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the Viberg sample sale is the epicenter of the True Boot Believers universe. Viberg ships out more than 800 pairs of unsold stock, samples, seconds, and one-off, just-tinkering-around-projects from their ... Read More...

Brian The Bootmaker Alden Indy Mini Ripple Resole

Watch Brian the Bootmaker Resole an Indy Boot With a Vibram Mini-Ripple

If you haven't seen Brian the Bootmaker's boot resoling videos, you need to change that immediately. Luckily one opportunity is right below! Los Angeles-based Brian is a guy who wears many hats, including the literal fedora hat he's basically neve... Read More...

Meet Fashion Legend Grahame Fowler—and His Ridiculous Tricker’s Collection

If a cat has nine lives, then Grahame Fowler is somewhere between 17 and 22 cats. Painter. Chef. Footwear obsessive. Former owner of almost 20 menswear stores. Collaborator with Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake. Rolex stockpiler. Collector of 74 v... Read More...

Very Cool Summer Shoe: The Alden Ranger Mocc Mackworth

Alden makes so many wonderful shoes that inevitably some of just don't get as much buzz, as if they were the 14th kid in a farming family whose broadcast seeder skills are just totally overlooked One could say that's the case with the Ranger Mocc,... Read More...

Want Shell Cordovan Loafers for Just $350? Meermin’s Got ‘Em.

Stichdown has been a little loafer-happy recently, but hey—'tis the season. And don't expect us to stop being shell cordovan-happy anytime soon—it's one of the most beautiful, unique, and durable shoe leathers in the world. It's also damned expens... Read More...

This Vintage Alden Catalog is a Beautiful Shockwave of Shoe Nostalgia

Alden has a long history of making some of the finest shoes available anywhere in the world. Unsurprisingly, they also make a mean sales catalog/manual to guide retailers through their lasts, models, and overall philosophy. While talking to the ow... Read More...