The Stitchdown Shoecast

ACL's Michael Williams on Misguided Shoe Recs & The "Disappearing Middle" of Quality Footwear

June 23, 2026·1h 22m
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Michael Williams is sometimes a “marketer who hates marketing,” who has helped many of the great US manufacturing brands, up to and including Red Wing. Other times he he’s writing his often menswear focused newsletter, the quietly massively influential A Continuous Lean. A while back he pre-invented the idea now used by every single temporary market you now see everywhere, with his Pop Up Flea concept. More often than seems possible, he’s doing something or other with the bon vivant th...

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