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The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast

Everything you love about the Stitchdown Shoecast—now with extra bonus episodes only for community members.

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75:34

How to Revive The Cobbling Industry? Teach it in High...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/10/30

This past fall, Matt Paisley launched a shoe repair program at Colorado's Thunder Ridge high school, with nearly two dozen students taking the plunge and immediately being drawn into the program, skill development, and practical hands-on cobbling work. I had Matt lay out a blueprint for how he navigated making the shoe repair program happen, and the curriculum he’s been teaching in the first, legitimately monumental go-round. The fact that Matt’s program exists is a wonderful and ...

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77:47

SERES Founder Vanessa Arroyo on León, Mexico's...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/10/24

My chat this week is with Vanessa Arroyo, founder and designer of SERES Footwear, a focused line designed from the ground up with high-quality natural materials in a way that’s not often seen in the women’s space. Once known as “the weird girl in high school making her own clothes” and thrown into shoemaking almost by chance, Vanessa fell in love with the art and craft of shoemaking between New York City, Chicago, and Leon Mexico, where she found unexpected meaning in her Mexican-American her...

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45:35

Sprezza's Clayton Chambers on Timeless Loafers, Gorpy...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/10/17

This week on the Shoecast our chat is with Clayton Chambers, founder of the Substack newsletter Sprezza and general menswear individual about the world. After running through the footwear signposts in his own life, from churchboy penny loafers to the Clark’s Wallabees he just can’t quit, Clayton digs in on footwear brands in and outside the welted space he’s really feeling, the rise of menswear brand- and product line-building done the slow and steady way, and why the younger generation...

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76:10

Ticho is BACK to Talk Østmo x Iron Boots' Lore—and...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/10/07

The one and only Tichoblanco, aka Tichoblancoshoes, aka just plain old Ticho, is BACK. Where’s he been?Well he’ll tell ya all about that. What’s he been up to? The biggest answer to that is: happily grinding on his Østmo x Iron Boots project along with Cheng and Kai from Iron Boots, and Østmo boots mad genius maker Lars Jensen. Lars was actually our first-ever guest on this show, back at a time when he was still making any boot he wanted, in any size, and any leather, and getting ...

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81:52

Boot Camp 2025 Chicago: Exhibitors + Events Rundown

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/09/30

In part two of a tag-team with the Full Grain Podcast, the ever-handsome/charming Phil Kalas grills Ben on what to expect at Stitchdown's Boot Camp Chicago 2025 mega-expo and footwear-loving community epicenter this November. Japanese and Indonesian boot brands? Tanneries galore? Truly excellent women's footwear? The world's best care products? Red Wing & SB Foot??? Yes indeed. And oh so much more. Wherever you are in this world, do everything you can to get to Chicago on and ...

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44:46

Brett Viberg Community Q&A at the Viberg NYC Shop

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/08/19

Last week we had our Stitchdown community's first gathering at the new Viberg NYC store—an honestly fabulous-looking little shop in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood that’s full of Viberg’s core classic product like stitchdown 2030 and 310 last service boots, but also the loafers and monk straps and split-toe derbies that represent a wholly new—and often confounding for longtime fans—direction for the 94 year old Canadian manufacturer. Amidst the excellent chatter and beers and everyone t...

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51:51

BONUS: A Look Inside China with Motiv & Arch Support...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/08/13

Jason Pecarich of Division Road and Motiv/Arch Support Project co-founder Samuel Wei came on to discuss ASP's legitimately unique approach to footwear, how Motiv broke through Division Road’s no-China policy, and how Chinese customers are finding themselves more drawn towards high-quality heritage products. Also: the ways tariffs are affecting Chinese brands from an export and domestic standpoint, and why certain special Chinese products might reasonably cost as much as things made else...

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31:07

How Japan's Astounding Bootmaking Culture Grew—And...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/08/05

It’s not a stretch to say there is no quality footwear culture quite like Japan’s. But WHY does the Japanese passion for making and wearing great boot and shoes exist? Well, I had to go to Tokyo to find out. As the final piece of our five-part Sole Searching: Tokyo YouTube series, I sat down with Michiya Suzuki—ex-Red Wing Japan GM and co-founder of The 2 Monkeys boot brand—to crack it open. Turns out, it’s part Americana, part rebellion, and part deep cultural reverence for...

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40:27

BONUS: How to Clean, Condition, and Polish Shell...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/07/30

Shell cordovan! That most hallowed of footwear leathers—and one of the most worried-about when it comes to care. But it shouldn't be, according to Pure Polish's Andy Vaughn, our resident leather-care whisperer. In this Shoecast bonus episode, Andy breaks down the basics, starting with one of his golden rules: how to clean shell, which is crucial just generally, and for setting up the next steps. We also talked through the art of the mirror shine (it’s slower than you want it to be), how...

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88:12

How to Do YouTube Product Reviews Without Losing Your...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/07/01

The Iron Snail, aka Michael Kristy, is one of my favorite YouTube inhabitants, thanks to his legitimately unique approach to reviewing, historicizing, and manufacturing crazily high-quality footwear and clothing. I sat down with Michael to chat about his favorite historical nuggets from the footwear he's covered, how he manages to deliver accurate information in a world that often lacks it, where his collaborative footwear projects are going, how damn hard small-scale quality manufactu...

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86:21

Developing Leather for Red Wing and More with SB...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/06/18

Since 1986, SB Foot Tanning Company is most known as the tannery owned by Red Wing, and with good reason: every bit of leather used on Red Wing Heritage footwear is developed and made by SB Foot just a few miles from Red Wing’s US manufacturing facility. But the tannery itself and its relationship with Red Wing stretch much further back—to the late 1800s. And SB Foot creates leather for far more than just its neighbor in Red Wing, Minnesota—everyone from solo makers, to Russell Moccasin, to t...

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48:09

BONUS: Shop Talk with Horween's John Culliton and...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/05/30

Horween Leather Co. and The Tannery Row everything-man John Culliton and Grant Stone founder Wyatt Gilmore stopped by the Shoecast for another bonus Shop Talk episode—where each guest gets to ask any three questions, and the other guest HAS to answer. Which this time, led to a wonderfully insightful chat about, how the leather supply chain has shifted and in some ways gotten worse, the dangers of discounting a premium product and where that road ends, how to keep customers (and how to h...

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104:59

Custom Cowboy Bootmaker Jake Houston on Preserving...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/05/15

About a half hour from Reno, there’s a place called Virginia City Nevada, where everything feels like it’s 1859 and the US’s largest silver deposit was just discovered. The bars say saloon and look the part. The cemetery is definitely haunted. And of course there’s a custom hatmaker—who shares a space in one of Virgnia City’s oldest surviving buildings with bespoke cowboy bootmaker Jake Houston. Jake Houston wasn’t the first person to fall victim to the wonderful folly of “the boots I w...

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89:04

Seiji McCarthy is Making Some of the World's Greatest...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/05/15

Tokyo-based, half-American/half-Japanese Seiji McCarthy discusses his uniquely late path into shoemaking, the development of his vintage-Americana-inspired bespoke line, why he feels more American in Japan, and why it’s sometimes better if your bespoke shoemaker doesn't make your shoes entirely themselves. https://www.seijimccarthy.com/

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96:34

Is Turriff Functional Footwear Making the...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/04/29

This week we've got a chat with Andrew Turriff, a Canadian shoemaker who studied at Cordwainer’s Footwear Design program in London, worked for some big sneaker brands, and did pattern work for fellow Canadians Viberg and time in the orthopedic world before deciding to make a zero-drop, anatomical, barefoot shoe with of top-end materials—and also make it resolable, which it’s otherwise quite tough to find. Turriff Functional Footwear's launch model recently became available and I’ve been...

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45:03

How Tariffs Are Already Impacting the Footwear...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/04/10

Matt Priest, President and CEO of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, came on the Shoecast the morning after 104% tariffs on Chinese goods into the US hit in a rapidly-moving-target trade war with the United States and just about every other country. What ARE tariffs? How might tariffs and general uncertainty impact massive shoe brands? Smaller ones? Made-in-USA footwear? Retail prices? What's kinds of supply chain breakdowns have already happened and what might be next?...

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90:50

BONUS: Derek Guy...Returns!

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/03/26

After a half decade of relentlessly shaming him into it, last month we finally had Derek Guy on the Shoecast—you know, Menswear Guy from Twitter, the style sage behind the Die Workwear podcast on Blamo and his own Die workwear blog, and plenty more. That first episode—pretty much an hour and a half of shoes Derek likes and doesn’t, with way even more depth than I bargained for—was so good that we had to have him back on for a bonus episode. This time we get into a bit more on Dere...

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27:10

BONUS: Shoe Care Listener Q&A w/ Pure Polish's Andy...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/03/10

Andy is BACK for a Shoecast bonus episode—to field listener questions and let us all know how to tell when's the right time to condition leather shoes (and why you shouldn’t condition outsoles), how to unsqueak your shoes, why PH basic=bad, how shoe care misinformation spreads, and plenty more, of course including cheese. Check out Andy's main episode here: https://www.stitchdown.com/stitchdown-shoecast/shoe-leather-care-101-andy-vaughn-pure-polish/ And Pure Polish's site and product ra...

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70:50

Skateboarding Legend Jamie Thomas Is Here To Cook...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/01/28

Jamie Thomas is one of the most revered skateboarders of all time—and also a footwear designer and serial skate shoe brand founder. The release of his latest project Warsaw seemed as good an excuse as any to have Jamie take me through the history of skate shoes and the sponsorships that arose around them, how and where they're made—and with what materials, constructions, and performance considerations—and how the landscape of one of the world's most influential types of footwear has shifted o...

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69:52

How to Make Your Leather Footwear Last Literally...

The Stitchdown PREMIUM Shoecast ·

2025/01/07

The idea that well-made, resoable footwear can last almost literally forever is one of its core allures—but it’s a promise that simply won’t come true if it’s not cared for properly. Especially the leather. But what’s the best way to do that? And for different types of leather? Well you’ll know a ton more after my fantastic chat with Andy Vaughn, owner of Pure Polish, the Oregon-based company whose emphasis on 100% natural, non-toxic leather care products is fulfilled thanks to the kind ...

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