Since 1904, the Shoe Service Institute of America has operated as an essential champion for the shoe repair industry. This week, Ben sat down with SSIA board me... Read More...
Color 8 is perhaps the most famous—and certainly most ubiquitous—shade of Horween's legendary shell cordovan.
Color 8 boxboard shell cordovan, the same base ... Read More...
Ben and Ticho are back to tear open the Shoebag once more to answer probing listener questions such as: how should handsewns fit when they're NEW? What's the be... Read More...
Michael James is known as “Northampton’s Last Man”—and after nearly 40 years in the game, the director of Springline lastmakers most certainly lives up to the c... Read More...
When Graham Ebner says he makes “really nice, really expensive” cowboy boots, it’s somehow barely a brag.
In just five short years the Houston native (“to be... Read More...
Just about one year ago, Luke Kolbie and his business partner Joe Julian took over ownership of 125-year-old Russell Moccasin: the Berlin, Wisconsin bookmaker t... Read More...
Viberg just released some more 145 Oxfords, and they didn't skimp on the chonk.
About a decade and a half ago, when Viberg's popularity began to bubble up in... Read More...
On top of their yearly in-person sample/archive/etc sale (which for 2023 will actually be taking place at our Boot Camp event in NYC—we'd love to see you there!... Read More...
Guthrie, Oklahoma-based Lisa Sorrell can trace her own bootmaking ancestry back to one of the first cowboy bootmakers ever: Gus Blucher (a man quite aptly named... Read More...
That's right it's time for another SHOEBAG episode, in which Ben and Ticho dig precariously deep into such pivotal topics as: what is an overdyed leather and ho... Read More...
