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The Incredible Untold Boot Histories of White’s, Wesco, Nicks, and Viberg

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...

Carl Murawski On Who SHOULD Wear Work Boots, and the Paradox of Buying Lots of Boots That All Last Forever

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...

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The Most Important Shoe & Boot Happenings of 2020

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 than I certainly could’ve anticipated given the circumstances. So Ticho and I ran them down ... Read More...

Brett Viberg on Where Viberg is Headed as a Brand, the New Widths, and the Worst Boot He Ever Made

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...

How Ticho’s and My Shoe Journeys Got Us Where We Are Today

Ahhhh, the Shoe Journey. The voyage from understanding essentially nothing about great shoes and boots to...GETTING IT. It's a path that winds in all directions... Read More...

How to Find the Best Possible Shoe & Boot Values

WHAT ARE THE BEST VALUE SHOES I CAN BUY? It's the thing everyone wants to know. And while there are some sure-thing answers when it comes to pure bang-for-the-buck, finding the best value footwear, for you, and perhaps more importantly, extracting th... Read More...

Mark (Albert) Barbera on How to Start a Boot Company, and the Future of US-Made Footwear

Mark Barbera of Mark Albert Boots had a dream: make some Chelsea boots. Next thing he knew, he had an entire boot company, operating out of his hometown of Some... Read More...

Is Shell Cordovan Overrated or What??

SHELL CORDOVAN! That most magical of shoe leathers. King of shine, paragon of durability, bastion of beauty. There really is nothing quite like it. But shell... Read More...

How to Score Alden Rare Shell Cordovan—Plus Plenty More in the Shoecast Shoebag

"How do I get my hands on some Alden rare shell cordovan boots or shoes?" It's one of the questions we get asked the most. So Ben from @stitchdown and @tichoblancoshoes decided to crack it open, along with plenty of other listener questions you can l... Read More...

Standard & Strange’s Neil on Engineers, and Getting Detained in Japanese Jail With John Lofgren

Neil Berrett, co-founder of the excellent Oakland booterdashery Standard & Strange, is many things. A Viberg and Wesco makeup wizard. A dutiful procurer ... Read More...