The black hi-shine snaffle bit loafer (for men and women)…available again in limited quantities this fall. Nothing a man wears is more important than his shoes. The late philosopher king, Glenn O’Brien, cavalierly preached that. We do too. This is why we went to Northamptonshire, England to produce our footwear. The perfect place to try something new, the old-fashioned way. England is to shoemaking what Germany is to luxury sports cars. The county of Northamptonshire has been bench-making Goodyear welted shoes to exacting standards since the 1880s. As the name implies, bench-made shoes are hand-tooled on a craftsman’s table or cobblers bench as they undergo up to 225 different operations over nine weeks. A single shoe will pass through an assembly of English artisans—the last-maker, the pattern-cutter, the clicker, the closer, the maker, the socker, and the tree-maker—before eventually landing in the inky embrace of the polisher. The result is the kind of well-made handcrafted shoes...