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Even though most (hopefully) take out and put in shoe trees every day, many people use the wrong technique when this is done, which can make it unnecessarily complicated. Here I show how this is done best to save both yourself and the shoes trouble.
The other week I sorted among my shoe care stuff, and took the opportunity to gather everything for a photo session. So here’s a bunch of pictures of creams, wax tins, brushes and other shoe care stuff from a number of manufacturers.
The fact that it’s always more difficult to polish up a proper shine on new shoes most have probably experienced. It may, however, differ greatly between manufacturers how easy it is to get them shined well, and a lot has to do with how much cream and polish they received at the factory. These shoes above is a good example, both are new and have been polished on almost exactly the same way, but the end result differs significantly.
Japanese Edoya makes some of the world’s finest shoe care brushes, made entirely by hand in a small factory in Tokyo. Their suede brush is made with dense hairs of phosphor bronze, and is simply an amazing product.
It’s obviously important to give care and protection also to the sole and heel edge on suede shoes with some shoe cream and maybe polish. It’s made of leather, and without care it dries out and looks really bad. When you put on the shoe cream you quite easily can end up with some of it on the suede, which is not ideal. Here I let you know how to easily get it off if you happen to make this mistake.
