Blogs

Can you see the pores? It's the wrong question. The four ideas you actually need to judge any leather — and stop being fooled by a price tag or a...

Brake House is Real Simons' official retailer and wholesale partner outside China — and the next phase, joint product development for international buyers, is just getting underway. This post explains...

After the Garrison belt, our second belt project is almost here. You chose the three designs — Diamond, Rodeo, and Montgomery — and we wore them all over China to...

Inside the Real Simons workshop in Shandong: how the brand picks horsehide, how the floor is divided, what gets rejected, and how the price comes out.

Before Real Simons was a brand, it was a village workshop in Shandong that spent more than a decade making leather jackets for major American heritage labels. This is the...

A belt is the most overlooked piece. But changing it is never small — it shifts the whole mood. We're deep in samples on a new studded belt, and a...

A month of customer questions, one clear answer: more freedom where it counts. Leather, midsole color, and toe puff & heel counter — now yours to choose on the 3450.

Instead of chasing variation, we reduced the design to four essential elements—buckle shape, buckle material, leather width, and leather finish. This editorial outlines our curation philosophy and explains how each...

A garrison belt is more than an accessory—it’s a functional constant shaped by military roots and motorcycle culture, refined through decades of real use.  

Introduction — Launching Horween Custom Options Before the year ends, Brake House will be introducing a Horween Leather custom leather option for our engineer boots. To celebrate this launch, this...

Discover why natural vegetable-tanned horsehide jackets age uniquely with patina.