Stitchdown Shoecast

Nick Horween and Phil Kalas Forcibly Take Over the Shoecast, And Turn the Whole Thing Right Around on Us

We've had both Nick Horween (the one from Horween Leather) and Phil Kalas (formerly of Horween, now making some of the best wallets, belts, and more over at Ash... Read More...

Unsung House’s Grant Gustafson is Doing Some of the Coolest Repair, Customization, and Bootmaking in the Game

Unsung House is a wonderfully rare shoe repair shop. After a half decade learning the trade in a more “standard” cobbler setting, brothers Grant and Isaac Gusta... Read More...

How Jack Millington Started England’s First New Tannery in a Century on His Parent’s Goat Farm

For anyone who's ever thought of quitting their job to make leather and boots, here's the secret: just first make sure your parents own a goat farm in the British countryside. Six years ago, Jack Millington was the lucky guy in that position, and ... Read More...

Easy Moc’s Greg Cordeiro on Re-Growing the Maine Handsewn Moccasin Tradition—and Big Shoe Biz vs Niche

Greg Cordeiro is our kind of shoe nerd. And the dude has been around. After getting his start as an intern at Puma before shifting over to design work for Ti... Read More...

The Shoecast is BACK for Season 7! With Brooklyn’s Own Bespoke Shoemaker Francis Waplinger.

After being trained in the shoemaking arts by some of the all-time greats—including Italian master Roberto Ugolini and US shoemaking gravitational center Marcel... Read More...

Dress Shoes Deep Dive! What Makes a Fantastic Dress Shoe? Plus Recs at All Price Points.

Occasionally we discuss boots on this podcast, but that doesn't mean we don't love and appreciate a great dress shoe as well. In the FINAL episode of Season 6, Ben grills Ticho—the actual dress shoe-knowing person on this podcast—about what elemen... Read More...

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How to Win the Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome

SHOOOOOOOOERADIO! That's right, everyone's favorite drive-time terrestrial radio show about boots and shoes is BACK to tell you exactly how to win over $30k in ... Read More...

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Black Boots: Boring or Essential? Ben & Ticho’s Biggest Boot Regrets. Plus: How YOU Can Help Cobblers.

You know, when you have a history of publicly claiming to not be a black-boot lover and then you have a podcast co-host who can even more publicly prove that yo... Read More...

Talking Vintage Inspiration, Shoe Saunas, Beaver Fur, and More With Yuketen Visionary Yuki Matsuda

Yuki Matsuda is an absolute gem of a man. If there's someone more relentlessly excited to design and make and just talk shoes after more than three decades in the biz than Yuketen's founder, I haven't met them (but would definitely like to; DM me plz... Read More...

What’s Brewing at the New Division Road Virginia? We Went Down There to Find Out.

Just about one year ago, footwear/menswear super-retailer Division Road packed up the Seattle storefront that served as its home for the better part of a decade... Read More...