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The Best Value Shoes and Boots at Just About Every (Reasonable) Price Range

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 depends as much on who you are, and how you'll be deploying your shoes and boots, as what the p... Read More...

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Ask Lars: What’s The Difference Between Stitchdown and Veldtschoen Construction?

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Ask Lars, in which I (believe it or not) ask Lars Jensen—the virtuoso Norwegian bootmaker behind Østmo—probing, essential questions about footwear construction, leather, patterns, and more. If you want to learn ... Read More...

Beckett Simonon Gallagher Boot Review: an Imperfect But Welcoming Entry Point into Quality Boots

David Garcia is a Stitchdown contributor specifically focused on the sub-$300 shoe and boot market (even though he owns a pair of Alden Indys. So he's like, legit.) As we first plunge into that most fulfilling hobby that is quality footwear, we don'... Read More...

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Custom Kilties? That Make Your Boots Fit Better?? Say Hello to Trinity Handmade.

If you've ever ordered a pair of boots made in the Pacific Northwest or Indonesia, you've likely plunged into the box, pulled your boots out, tried them on, smiled with your soul, and then kept digging. Maybe there's some extra laces in there! Possib... Read More...

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How to Get the Stitchdown x Sagara Bandung Mahogany Horsebutt Derby

There are few boots I've enjoyed more in the last year than my Sagara Cordmaster monkey boots in a wonderful matchacore black-overdyed olive Badalassi Minerva veg-tan. And Sagara head man Bagus is one of my favorite people to chat shoes with, period.... Read More...

Rancourt’s Latest Crowdfunding Sale Offers Crazy Deals on a Deep Range of Styles

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 offered crazy-slashed wholesale pricing on a few styles if they could get enough people t... Read More...

The Only Shoe & Boot Term Dictionary You’ll Ever Need (Probably)

Welcome to the Stitchdown Shoe & Boot Term dictionary. There are many words in here, about shoes and boots, followed by definitions. You should read them. Putting correct information out into the world is paramount at Stitchdown; if you have a... Read More...

Grant Stone Brass Boot Review: a Uniquely Intriguing, Wildly Versatile Moc-Toe

Like many others, my boot passion began with moc-toes. Sure, I had some very solid boots before that—some excellent Zamberlan hikers, suede Sebago chukkas I still wear here and there, a pair of brown Wolverine 1000 Miles that somehow were stolen from... Read More...

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, Wesco, Nicks Handmade Boots, and Viberg came to be, and how they persisted, are quite honestly... Read More...

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Immerse Yourself In How a Rancourt Handsewn Loafer is Made, Step by Step

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-cake. Yes, there are machines involved. But the hand-work that's required to create the s... Read More...