Editor’s Note: Two of the three styles below have had price increases since this story first published. They are now over $100. For me, these types of “house shoes” never made much sense. I live in a ...

You might imagine that the home of Mr. Palm Springs Leather 2015 would be filled with, well, leather accoutrements — or at least a hint that a prominent member of the leather community lives there.

Every year for decades men have descended on Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend for an annual leather pilgrimage otherwise known as International Mr. Leather (IML), as did I this past week. One of ...