Stitchdown Shoecast

Shoecast Bonus PREVIEW: Brett Viberg Community Q&A at the Viberg NYC Shop

Last week we had our Stitchdown community's first gathering at the new Viberg NYC store—an honestly fabulous-looking little shop in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborh... Read More...

Arch Support Project—Podcast With Division Road's Jason Pecarich and Samuel Wei of Motiv and Radiance Blue

A Look Inside China with Motiv & Arch Support Project’s Samuel Wei

So we’re on break between Shoecast seasons right now—but we’ve been offering more and more bonus episodes to our subscribers (also our private Discord is lit) t... Read More...

Michael Kristy aka the Iron Snail interview

How to Do YouTube Product Reviews Without Losing Your Soul: The Iron Snail Interview

Michael Kristy aka The Iron Snail is one of our favorite YouTube inhabitants, thanks to his legitimately unique approach to reviewing, historicizing, and manufacturing crazily high-quality footwear and clothing. I sat down with Michael on the Shoe... Read More...

Lacy Schumann—SB Foot Tanning Company—Red Wing Shoe Company

Developing Leather for Red Wing and More with SB Foot’s Lacy Schumann

Since 1986, SB Foot Tanning Company is most known as the tannery owned by Red Wing, and with good reason: every bit of leather used on Red Wing Heritage footwea... Read More...

Stuart Weitzman Interview—Stitchdown Shoecast

Women’s Shoe Icon Stuart Weitzman on Nudists, Aretha Franklin & The First Shoe He Ever Sold

No conversation about the all-time great women's shoe designers is complete without a very long segue into Stuart Weitzman. Born into a shoemaking family who ma... Read More...

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...

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 di... 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... 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...

How Tariffs Are Already Impacting the Footwear Industry, with FDRA CEO Matt Priest

Matt Priest, President and CEO of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, came on the Shoecast the morning after 104% tariffs on Chinese goods into ... Read More...