Welcome to the inaugural edition of Ask Lars, in which I (believe it or not) ask Lars Jensen—the virtuoso Norwegian bootmaker behind Østmo—probing, essential qu... Read More...
If you've ever ordered a pair of boots made in the Pacific Northwest or Indonesia, you've likely plunged into the box, pulled your boots out, tried them on, smi... Read More...
There are few boots I've enjoyed more in the last year than my Sagara Cordmaster monkey boots in a wonderful matchacore black-overdyed olive Badalassi Minerva v... Read More...
Back in the middle of last year, Maine stalwart Rancourt, maker of excellent handsewn and Blake construction shoes and boots, came up with an idea: what if they... Read More...
Welcome to the Stitchdown Shoe & Boot Term dictionary. There are many words in here, about shoes and boots, followed by definitions. You should read them.
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Like many others, my boot passion began with moc-toes. Sure, I had some very solid boots before that—some excellent Zamberlan hikers, suede Sebago chukkas I sti... Read More...
The Pacific Northwest is home to the last remaining epicenter of quality bootmaking in the US (and Canada)—and the stories of how the makers White's Boots, Wesc... Read More...
All quality shoemaking processes are intensely interesting to watch, but there's a fairly easy argument to be made that handsewn manufacturing takes the shoe-ca... Read More...
Carl Murawski is a man of many facets—and many boots. Sure, he's the world's largest YouTube star, and a man with a genuinely impressive perspective on so much ... Read More...
On the heels of the black shell cordovan original, there’s a new Stitchdown x Alden Madison Stitchup boot in town (or, will be in six months or so): the Stitchu... Read More...
