We’ve got an April shower this week—whole bunch of drops in this particular drizzle—which, if the saying holds, bodes well for May. For now, read on for Viberg’s first SS26 release, the first boot from BRUT, and lots more…
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Nicks Boots x Division Road Every Day Man Boot in Horween Italian Brown Cypress: $795
Nicks and Jason at DR have been boot-scheming for a while now, and their fourth team-up is a very good addition to the Just A Really Good Boot pantheon—with a twist underneath. The Spokane maker’s round-toed HNW last anchors a classically designed lace-up cap-toe boot in Horween’s emerging Cypress tannage, this time Italian brown. The ace up the sleeve is the sole that’s used—see what’s cooking there, through here.
Viberg 310 Service Boot in Horween Natural Marine Field Roughout: $1,118
Tapei- and Shanghai-based Classic Works quietly does some of the best Viberg makeups out there. And to commemorate the Shanghai store opening, Calvin and crew rolled out a simple, dare we say classic 310-last banger: a cap-toe Service Boot with Dr. Sole half-soles in the ever-effective Horween Marine Field Shoe roughout, one of the most patina-happy leathers available on anything. To us, 310s look best with a straight-tip cape toe, and these are hitting very right.
Viberg Service Boot 2030 BCT in Cognac Tuscany: $1,165
Viberg’s first drop of Spring/Summer 2026 is here, and it’s a conspicuously smooth release—no suede or hatchgrain in sight. Instead, we get two unembellished grain-out leathers. The first is Conceria Walpier’s Tuscany, a glossy veg-tan cut from the shoulder of the hide, and available in cognac as well as black and Foresta, on a brougued cap-toe service boot on the 2030 last with stitchdown construction and Ridgeway outsoles…
Viberg Service Boot 2040 in Foresta Tuscany: $1,250
…as well in the same range of colors on a plain toe 2040 boot, with the same Ridgeway soles (if you’re in the UK, this Foresta version happens to be available in stock at Rivet and Hide).
Viberg Bristol in Sandalwood Kangaroo: $1,155
The second leather featured in the release is Kangaroo, tanned by Bonaudo, another Italian tannery. It’s a thin but disproportionately strong leather that despite flexing quite easily is light enough to hold its shape well. It appears on all of the release’s welted models, including a Bristol loafer on the 1905 last…
Viberg Savoy in Ebony Kangaroo: $1,155
…a Savoy on the anatomical Cantilever last…
Viberg Navvy Cut Shoe in Nero Kangaroo: $1,155
.. a cut down version of the Navvy Boot, also on the Cantilever last. All three models share the same leather sole and 270˚ flat welt, and like the stitchdown boots each is available in all three colors: sandalwood, ebony, and Nero. For full height Navvy boots and everything else we’ve neglected to mention, click here.
Nicks Boots Overstock Sale
Nicks is clearing out their overstock leathers, including Sage Chromepak, Color No. 8 Shackleton, Whiskey Predator, and lots more. While the shaft height is limited to 6″, there’s a full range of customization options for the last, hardware, toe structure, and finishing.
Engineered Garments x Alden Indy Oxford in Snuff Suede: $786
Nepenthes and Engineered Garments were founded by Keizo Shimizu and Daiki Suzuki respectively—Americana obsessives who’d been variously friends and co-workers since the late eighties, hence the brands’ close connection. This week, the snuff suede Engineered Garments Indy-shoe we covered back in February is now available in person at Nepenthes’s LA store as well as on their website. It has a wedge soles, stacked beneath 360˚ flat welts and snuff suede uppers, with blind eyelets and round laces that make for an inconspicuous hardware setup.
Alden 987 Leisure Handsewn in Black Cordovan: $1,022
This seems like a good time to point out that Nepenthes also has a few sizes left in the black shell version of the LHS, complete with leather soles, which are NOT easy to find these days.
Crown Northampton Overstone Derby in “North of Cordovan”: $517 (Made to Order)
What Crown Northampton calls “North of Cordovan” is Horween’s Horsehide Strip, so called because it’s the portion of the hide just above the shells. In particular, it’s a tumbled, vegetable tanned version of the leather finished with a Casein treatment that uses milk proteins to bring the leather to a high shine. It’s available on Crown’s Overstone Derby and Upton Wholecut.
BRUT Cuban Boots in Black: $380
Typically, cemented shoes use cheaper materials that allow them to be priced even more competitively, while welted shoes, which are going to be more expensive anyways, lean towards nicer (and so more expensive) internal components. This entry is an exception to that rule: BRUT’s Cuban boot—their first ever boot—has a cemented construction, but all leather heel stacks and midsoles. It’s a square-toed and every so slightly western inflected take on the side-zip, with chunky outsoles and high shafts. We expect that these will be slightly controversial—which really would be a sign that the concern for construction and materials is making more headway into the broader culture, outside our small corner of the internet.
Old House x Alden Camp Moc in Reverse Earth Chamois: $759 (Pre-order)
Pre-orders just opened up for the second ever Alden special makeup from Old House Provisions. It’s a three eyelet moc on the Van last, clicked from Horween reverse earth chamois. While the uppers are practically black, they’re broken by gold-toned eyelets and brown moc-toe stitching, while the edges and 360˚ split welts are finished with Alden’s warm “antique” stain. All sizes come in a D width by default, bit you can reach out to Drew to request narrower or wider widths.
Easymoc Camp Scout in Honey Crazy Horse: $375 (Made to Order)
There’s now a camp soles version of the Scout to accompany the usual wedge soled makeups, which Easymoc released in Honey Crazy Horse—the outsoles are made by Vibram and the uppers are handsewn.