Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barring such exotics as ostrich or crocodile, men typically think of proper dress shoes as coming in two flavors: calfskin or ...

Welcome to Worth the Price, a recurring series exploring some of menswear’s most covetable and expensive products. This week: shell cordovan shoes. Shell cordovan shoes are discussed and debated about ...

Ten, twenty years ago, if you asked us to reel off the best dress shoes brands, we'd be ticking off brands that had been working leather for at least a century, if not two. The Aldens, John Lobbs, and ...

Cordovan shoes are made from horsehide. Before you start weeping and gnashing your burger-biting teeth, consider that the hides that wind up on our feet are not from steeds raised for that purpose but ...

“Cordovan is a precious commodity,” says Steven Taffel, a man who ought to know. As owner of the West Village shoe store Leffot, Taffel spends his days surrounded by cordovan watch straps, wallets and ...