I have a pair of Oak Street using Horween leather and it is amazing stuff. How it changes color by putting slight pressure on it, and watching it go back to the original color is fun. Soft and comfortable as well.

Horween makes really good leather but so do plenty of other tanneries in the USA like Seidel and Wickett & Craig. What I think sets Horween apart is the diversity that they can produce. There chrome, veg and cordovan are all really good. Wickett & Craig might make a veg tan easily as good than Horween's veg but that's all they do. Also no one makes a cordovan as good as Horween. I don't care if Shinki takes a full year to make their shell when it looks and feels like plastic.

Their “Marine Field Shoe” leather was important during WWII.

So cool! This makes me excited to see how my Horween, black cherry, Canada West boots turn out

Horween in Chicago, where I was born and raised…. Horween has been famous for their leather as long as I can remember…. Nice video Nick!

Thanks for the Video, Horween is just so awesome, learning about leather is very cool!

It must have smelled amazing in there! Great video!

Super interesting! I love who they picked as president, seems like a genuine boss that's passionate about his product

Ahhh! You finally made it to chicago!… sorry about the weather. Come back in the summer.

CXL. Good stuff. I'm got my AE Higgins Mill in CXL on my feet now.

Yeah, love Horween CXL leather on my Wolverine 1000 Mile boots.

Horween makes great leather.

Horween should be a national treasure

once again great video!

I've had the worst luck with Chromexcel. Owned half a dozen pairs made from it and none have had nice grain break. The shell has been great though.

I like horween but they need to work on their quality control. Far too many chromexcel shows have terrible loose grain. But overall wickett and craig is a higher quality tannery in my opinion

I have 6 pairs of boots and yet I don’t have a pair in horween leather. Maybe I might need to get a black CXL pair this fall.

Do wickett & Craig next!

Great video!

Where's Nick Horween? Did he leave the company?

I feel like you need to do some collabs clothing or shoe related

Horween makes good products, mostly. However, Chromexcel is overrated. I have a collection of shoes and boots made of various types of leather and tanning processes but never had the chance to try Chromexcel, until I finally found and ordered a pair of of boots on sale at Allen Edmonds. As expected, the texture was a bit too smooth and supple to my liking. That's fine with me because it would be one variety in my footwear collection. Then I wore that pair of boots for a whole day. When I took them off, with the warmth and moisture, they emit a smell they made me a bit nauseous. I love the feel and smell of leather and I guess, despite all the hype, Chromexcel leather is an exception.

That's why footballs do not look or feel the same 😂

I live in Chicago, would love to tour their facilities at some point...any idea if they give public tours?

good man good video good taste good everything

i mean i mena its by no means bad but idk why people say its the best leather in America. other then their shell, its mostly just chrome tan.... like its iight....