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...
2020: Interesting year! I feel like a few things happened.
And despite all those, um, things, plenty also happened in the quality footwear world. Far more th... Read More...
Viberg's an ever-changing beast—which is exactly what Brett and I talked about on the most recent Shoecast episode. And while the Canadian super-brand's first r... Read More...
It's Brett Viberg time! Few people have exerted as much influence over the quality footwear industry over the past decade as Brett has while he's reshaped Viber... Read More...
