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Picture this: you’ve bought your dream pair of shoes and they’re as perfect as you’d envisioned them to be. But you’re too scared to wear them. The fear of making your newest purchase dirty is a natural deterrent, especially in the case of footwear.
How do you overcome this? Here are our top tips to properly take care of your shoes to ensure you can wear your favourite footwear without fearing for their survival!
Practise Your Polishing
If you have leather shoes, they are likely to have marked an investment to your wardrobe, due to the expensive qualities of leather due to the material’s versatility and stylistic qualities. Therefore, it is within your best interest to protect your investment to make your purchase worthwhile.
The key point of focus when it comes to taking care of your leather shoes is starting as you mean to go on. By consistently polishing your leather shoes, you are continuously deterring the threat of dirt or damage, allowing the leather to remain as the centrepiece of your shoes without any visual distractions. Shoe polish can be purchased online or in-stores and is an affordable solution to maximise the life of your shoe. Apply the polish with a small brush, and you’ll be good to go!
Steer Clear of Moisture
No matter which material your shoes are crafted from, they are mutually disagreeable with moisture. The solution? Avoid any sources of moisture and ensure your shoes remain in as dry of an environment as possible.
Extensive and continuous exposure to moisture can cause your shoes to develop bacteria, causing the material to diminish, therefore making your shoes unwearable. To avoid this, professionals recommend that you use a source of dryness. If you are willing to invest in this, desiccants are recommended (like the kind you will sometimes find in a shoebox). Alternatively, a budget-friendly option is newspaper, or any other kind of paper you no longer require, and change this weekly or fortnightly.
Keep in Shape
Another issue faced when trying to take care of your shoes is the problem of maintaining their original shape. Often, after a long day, you take off your shoes and throw them in the cupboard. Whilst this seems justified after a gruelling day where you want to sit back, relax, and put your feet up, your shoes will be affected during this process.
To avoid this, we recommend purchasing a shoe tree, or a different style of shoe storage device depending on your preference. There are many advantages of shoe trees, most notably including the fact that your shoes will avoid being crushed amongst the mountain of sneakers and boots you have piled up in the cupboard, therefore maintaining their original appearance for as long as possible. Additional benefits include the fact that a majority of shoe trees are crafted from wood – therefore reducing moisture and ensuring your shoes are as dry as possible (this may help you to skip the newspaper/desiccant solution suggested above!). Another benefit comes through the fact that once purchased, this is a time-free step, requiring no further effort or time than putting your shoes in the cupboard. Hang your shoes on the branch and you can get back to your relaxing!
Look Out for Your Soles
As well as ensuring the material your shoes are crafted from as kept in as pristine as possible, it is also vital that you consider the soles of your shoes, despite their introverted appearance, typically touching the ground.
Whilst you may think that the soles of your shoes will inevitably face dirt and damage due to their consistent, unrelenting contact with the ground with each and every wear, this is further evidence to why they need the utmost care: they are likely to be the most affected part of your shoe as a result of this.
Taking care of your soles is simple: when you remove your shoes, gently bring the soles of your two shoes together, thus allowing any excess dust to be removed. If you need to clean your shoes more thoroughly than this, take a small brush (a budget-friendly option is a toothbrush), and run it through the indentations of the soles to release any firmly embedded dirt.
If you ensure you follow these steps after each wear, or, at a minimum, on a weekly basis, your soles will maintain a pristine quality which will see your shoes stand the test of time.
By repeatedly performing the above steps, your shoes are likely to remain in top condition for an optimal amount of time, therefore making your original purchase of the shoe worthwhile.
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