Are you pinching pennies to save up for a pair of penny loafers (or perhaps for other styles of handsewn shoes)? Well, great news: Rancourt & Co. has just a... Read More...
The latest collaboration between NYC shoe paradise Leffot and Maine moccasin masters Rancourt & Co. checks ample boxes: a beacon for Ivy style enthusiasts; ... Read More...
Mike Rancourt and his son Kyle live and breathe handsewn shoes. The "breathe” is literal—one of Mike’s memories from growing up is the smell of soaked leather f... Read More...
Summer shoes! Those are just...boots, right? Apparently not!
In a Shoecast episode for which we applied 120 SPF sunscreen (to our shoes), Ticho and I first f... Read More...
What makes a perfect summer shoe? Well for starters you probably want something that’s not incredibly heavyweight. Also flexible? Sounds very appealing. No sock... Read More...
When it comes to quality shoes and boots, value is a 1) hugely important in making the right decision, and 2) something of a fungible concept. Value often depen... 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...
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...
Big, frightening questions abound in this world of ours. Does free will exist? What happens after we die? Someone just came over; what the hell is my wifi passw... Read More...
In the last episode of the Shoecast, Ticho and I did a birds-eye view of the US handsewn moccasin construction footwear scene: how the shoes are made, and the r... Read More...
