We’ve got two brand new names in the roundup this week. Plenty of familiar ones too, including many shades of Mr. Lou at Brooklyn clothing and four new Viberg boots in Horween’s Washed Wax Flesh, and of course, plenty more below…
Trawl through tons of past releases here.
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Brooklyn Clothing x Wesco Mr. Lou in Havana Chromexcel: $875
We’re happy to once again report Wesco’s wait times continue to crawl down—practically half what they were a few years ago. These though, were a 37-year wait—insofar the exigence for their creation was Brooklyn’s anniversary. There are three models, and all share identical specs save for upper leather: double row stitchdown construction, the MP1339 last, and brown SuperGrip half soles. For their part, the uppers are either Havana…
Brooklyn Clothing x Wesco Mr. Lou in Timber Chromexcel: $875
…Timber…
Brooklyn Clothing x Wesco Mr. Lou in Calvados Chromexcel: $875
…or Calvados Chromexcel, all of which are pretty darn rare. Great choices by Brooklyn here—CXL is as tried and true a Mister Lou leather as exists.
Viberg N1 Boot in Natural Washed Waxed Flesh: $1,415
Viberg’s had a new boot practically every week this spring, and this week they had four: an N1 Boot on the anatomical Cantilever last with a 270˚ flat welt…
Viberg Service Boot BCT in Natural Washed Waxed Flesh: $1,254
…and a trio of stitchdown service boots. That includes a brogued cap-toe 2030 model with Ridgeway outsoles…
Viberg Service Boot 310 in Natural Washed Waxed Flesh: $1,245
…a 310 with Dainite half soles (above), and a 2040 service boot DCT you can check out here.
Orée Sergio Bounty Hunter Engineer Boots in Oxblood Culatta and Cordovan: $820 (Preorder)
Orée has their hands in a lot of pies. They publish a magazine, put out the occasional piece of apparel or retrofuturist belt, and most importantly (for our purposes) make a lot of shoes and boots. Case in point—these engineers, presumably made for or from Hellboy. In reality, the uppers are clicked from shell-in Cullata, and the boots themselves—which have a 270˚ flat welt and Supergrip outsoles—are object dyed.
Orée Sergio Bounty Hunter Engineer Boots in Sand Suede: $595
And though it didn’t release this week, there are also a few sizes left in the far less dramatic Sand Suede version.
Yuketen Angler Moc in Brown Crazy Horse: $968
A special model made for a pop-up at Drake’s LA, Yuketen ended up with a handful of extra sizes, so these Anglers are now up on their ready-to-wear page, complete with Vibram 2021 wedge soles.
Meanforme Binley in Simo White: $384
Meanforme is another brand mining the overlap between “recognizably traditional” and “something very new or very strange is going on here”. The Binley is a strobel-stitched sneaker with a crepe mudguard and a moc toe, with a Vibram Morflex outsole and uppers in Sciarada Castoro suede…
Meanforme Walkerville in Chestnut: $316
…while the Walkervile uses the sachetto construction, where a sheet of crepe is folded around the bottom of the shoe on all sides and then sewn directly to the uppers. The pattern is very much space-station desert boot, complete with a skirt around the collar in place of fringe. Both models restocked in May, and their spring summer collection is releasing next month.
Unmarked Diego Boots in Brown Chromexcel: $605
A beefy size zip that’s mostly a big, unbroken expanse of leather—in this case Chromexcel—the Diego seems to have solidified its place as one of Unmarked’s core styles. These, made for East West Apparel, have a Vibram 705 half soles and a 270˚ flat welt on the E width 2012 last.