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When wax polish has been used for some time and have dried a bit it usually cracks into smaller pieces, which can make it more difficult to use. Here’s how to easily solve that problem.
It’s quite common that people in some shoes experience a certain discomfort over the foot’s instep, under the tongue. It can be hard to understand what it’s all about, but it’s often due to a relatively thin tongue, which makes the lacing push through and becomes “sharp” for the foot. Here’s how to correct the problem.
This is a topic I’ve been touching previously here on the blog, but since it’s something I still get a lot of questions about it, it might be worth its own article. We talk about cleaning your application brushes.
People interested in shoes usually also take good care of them, treat the upper regularly and often also the outsoles every now and then. One area often forgotten though, is the inside. This also do good with some care every now and then, something that can prolong the life of the shoes.
One thing that can make leather soles wear down a bit extra fast is if there is gravel that get stuck on them, and then create holes. However, one can easily reduce the risk for this.
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If you want to put a proper shine on the toe, and it’s a so-called cap toe model, most shine the entire cap all the way back to the toe seam. The problem is that in many cases the inner toe stiffener is shorter, and then the polish will break on the part that bends and it gets rather ugly.
These winter days it’s shoes with rubber soles that dominate on our feet, in many cases. It’s worth thinking about the fact that these may need more time to dry than leather soled shoes. Below I explain why.
I have received several questions about a stain similar to that in the image above, from frustrated readers who don’t know how to get rid of it or what that caused it. I have seen several asking questions about the same kind of stains in other contexts, so thought it would be worthwhile to post a comment about the phenomenon that I choose to call “water damage” when polishing.
I often get questions from people who choose between two sizes in a pair of shoes, one is a bit tight and the other is slightly spacious. As a rule of thumb, I always answer that they should go on the larger size. Here I explain why.
One common truth is that it takes a lot of time to get a good spit shine on your shoes. However, it does not have to. Here I go through a technique that will allow you to get a proper spit shine in 15 minutes.
