In 1991, when Scott Starbuck opened City Soles in Chicago, most of the shoes his customers wanted were made with leather from cow hides. Today, an increasing number of shoppers have a more vegan ...

I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs a while back (they were really scraping the bottom of the barrel here) and they had a bit about cleaning and polishing leather shoes. I could have sworn I heard the ...

A decent pair of leather shoes can last a long time if you take proper care of them. If you don’t have any shoe polish on hand, however, you can use petroleum jelly—like Vaseline—as a substitute. It ...

Ancient garbage can be like gold to archaeologists. During excavation of an 800-year-old trash dump in Lyon, France, scientists discovered the archaeological equivalent of golden shoe soles: A trove ...

Chances are, you’ve heard of vegan leather. You’ve probably even heard of mushroom leather, but what about apple leather? A byproduct of the apple juice industry, apple leather is made from ...