When a bootmaker constructs a boot, they drive nails through the upper leather, lining, heel counter, and insole. Each nail hits a steel plate mounted on the bo... Read More...
3rd Avenue of Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood is thick with the patina of a once-thriving, still kinda-thriving industrial zone: welding shops, lumber yards, si... Read More...
After a number of chats—during which I attempted to bankrupt the company by drinking possibly hundreds of cans of LaCroix from the Thursday office fridge—I fina... Read More...
A vast majority of the shoes Stitchdown focuses on are built with heavy-duty construction methods, from Goodyear welting, to Norgevese, to stitchdown (obviously... Read More...
My Alden Roy boots are probably my favorite piece of footwear that I own.
For a long time, I was on a quest to find the ultimate brown plain-toe boot: not ov... Read More...
Cool doctors are the best doctors. A doctor who loves quality shoes and boots? Pretty good start. A doctor who uses his downtime to take x-ray images of his Red... Read More...
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Lars Jensen makes bo... Read More...
Last week I published a preview of what Canadian boot maestro Viberg has planned for 2020—full of plenty information on release schedules, new models, and fun n... Read More...
Last week I got an extended preview of Viberg's plans for 2020—meaning the year after this year, not an exciting new last they're developing.
I spent a ton o... Read More...
I've always considered socks to be deeply important. When I was a kid, my favorite shopping trip with my mother was to the perfectly named Sock Exchange, which ... Read More...
