Stitchdown - Wear Better Shoes

Unstructured vs Structured Toes? Who Makes the Best Rugged Derby? And More On the Shoebag!

The Shoebag is back! All hail the Shoebag. This time, @tichoblancoshoes and I answer all sorts of reader questions, including: Unstructured vs structured toes? Half soles vs. full soles? What makes a perfect engineer boot? What are the metaphysica... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Clinch Tallboys, Viberg Gets Rowdy, and a Trio of Trumans

After that enormous batch of new releases from last week, this week’s SNBOTW has us catching our breath a bit. We’re highlighting some new collabs between Tricker's and Division Road, another service boot drop from Viberg, a fantastic boot from Japan... Read More...

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The First Stitchdown x White’s Boots x Maryam Collab Is Here

Maybe a year and a half ago, I started talking with Spokane's own White's Boots—the 106-year-old maker of some of the most indestructibly hand-built and yet brawnily beautiful boots one can own—about cooking up a collaboration boot together. We both ... Read More...

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The Deepest Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week Roundup In Quite Some Time

Okay… *cracks knuckles* We’ve got a MASSIVE Shoes ‘n Boots of the Week for you here. And that's all you really need to know. Read on to learn about some new releases from Viberg, White’s, Alden, and more. All of our past release round-ups ca... Read More...

19 Things You Almost Definitely Did Not Know About Tricker’s

Of all the storied shoemakers in Northamptonshire, the British belly of shoemaking that has wrought centuries of endless influence over footwear around the world, nobody has been at it longer, and more consistently, than 192-year-old Tricker's. In... Read More...

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Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: Green Boots! And Red Boots! And Color 8 Boots! (Which Are Also Kinda Red)

The latest Shoes ‘n Boots of the Week is proudly brought to you by the colors Green and Red. There’s a lot of both this week, from makers including Nicks, Truman, Unmarked, and more. Get in there. To read about previous new releases that feature c... Read More...

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Tricker’s Bespoke Shoemaker Adele Williamson on Everything You Didn’t Realize About Bespoke (and Making a Pair for Idris Elba)

Meet Adele Williamson: Tricker's youngest bespoke shoemaker ever, and also Tricker's first female bespoke shoemaker—in the brand's 192-year history. Adele's story is fantastic: unsure of what to do with her life, she enrolled in a shoe design clas... Read More...

Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week: a Shelby Sendoff, Two New Nicks, and Maybe the Best Oak Streets Ever

And we've got another breezy edition of Shoes ‘n Boots of the Week for you all. This week, we’ll be covering a couple of new drops from Nicks, a Viberg Shelby Sharp swansong from Division Road, a pair of nifty jump boots from Oak Street, and more. ... Read More...

Grant Stone’s Wyatt Gilmore on the Brand’s Origin Story, Leather Selection, The Luxurious Wide-Width Life, and More

Grant Stone's Wyatt Gilmore is one of the people we most love talking to in the entire footwear industry—so it was high time we had him on the Shoecast. While we spend plenty of time discussing how GS develops new models, and chooses leathers, and ho... Read More...

What Each Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome Judge Will be Looking For

The Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome is coming up Oct 1, in case you haven’t heard. And the concept underpinning this whole crazy/wonderful venture—wear the hell out of your boots (or shoes!) while still caring about them deeply, and let’s all watch wha... Read More...