Allen Edmonds Appreciation Thread - Page 981

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Originally Posted by SouthNarc 

Question on the AE Burnished Brown color:

I got a pair of Fifth Streets in this color and use Saphir cremes and waxes exclusively. I have several different shades of browns, including Med. and Dk. brown. For AE owners with a shoe in this color, and who use Saphir products, do you have a preference on which shade of brown works best for preserving the shoe's color?

I've used AE's saddle brown polish on my burnished brown Delrays and love the result.  After 1.5 years of this, they have a very rich and deep color that appears to be a blend of dark and light.  Very pleased.

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Originally Posted by mixedmajik 

Hey delmar  what size are your feet just to check...and lightly worn = lightly used, no? What's the difference? 

I wear 12E.  Some private individual sellers on ebay ask way too much for their beat up old AE"s.  But there are some stores on ebay that sell what they call used shoes that look virtually new.  Not dirt cheap but not an arm and a leg either.  I don't know the ins and outs, but I  suspect that AE gets shoes returned to them for one reason or another that can't be sold as new so AE doesn't want to mess with them and sell in bulk to some of these ebay resellers--like hitch-n-post.  Maybe I'm wrong but it makes sense to me.   

I found a pair of AE's Indepenence Line Rush loafers at the Rack last week, at a heavy discount.  I had no idea what the "Independence" line was but googled it while there and got to reading.  Rush was discontinued after its first year but still a beautiful shoe.  I bought it in a heartbeat.

There is a pretty comprehensive shoe care thread.  Click here

From what I was able to glean from that thread, to address scratches you:

Condition and buff a few rounds, you can apply a generous amount of black paste wax polish directly to the area to fill in scratch and let it dry overnight.  Then remove the excess polish with a horsehair brush or cloth.  Then polish the rest of the shoe to even out.

Please somebody jump in and correct me if I'm wrong.

I covered up a scratch on my kenilworths using the above protocol and it worked well enough.  It's a little uneven in terms of coloration, but the scratch is less noticeable.