**The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.** - Page 176

All the time i see shoe restoration on forums ,youtube ets! So when a friend of mine came here and told me ''i have these shoes and they have sentimental value for me,pls do something to save them" i thought they are for recycle bin but i told him "ok lets give it a try and do something about them the hard way!! so here are some pics of them!!

before :

they are all covered by mald ,cracked and wet !

after some cleanning-doing the magic they are saved i supposed :

happy end! haha

guys i have a question:
 

I bought 3 loafers a month ago, and one of them i recalled being a little narrow when i bought it, so i assumed the leather would stretch and i'd be alright. 

Fast forward to now, and the leather did stretch and the loafer is super comfortable. However, this is the result:

Due to my wide area in the ball of my foot/pinky toe, the leather has now stretched and the result is what you see in the image (sorry for the angle being a little to the side).

My idea was to expand the toebox, trying to do what the line in red is doing in the image so that it doesn't look as weird with the side of my foot just creeping out there.

My question to you is the following: Should i not worry about this even though it might look weird? 

I went today to a cobbler who said he couldn't do anything but i could buy some products and maybe try to do it myself. In other words, he was pretty useless.

Therefore, if I am to try this, how should i proceed? I've heard about newspaper with alcohol or water, but am not sure.

Thanks a lot.

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Originally Posted by rokr32 

guys i have a question:
 

I bought 3 loafers a month ago, and one of them i recalled being a little narrow when i bought it, so i assumed the leather would stretch and i'd be alright. 

 

Fast forward to now, and the leather did stretch and the loafer is super comfortable. However, this is the result:

 

you ll need a special spray that used when a shoe is narrow and can stretch the leather a.s.a.p! you spray it on the area of the shoe you want to strech and it ll be ok!! probably u ll have to use a shoe tree( prefer a plastic one cause you dont want the spray absorbed by the wood)!! if the the leather is suede or nuback spray at the inside of the shoe!the saphir product is named "oke"  or use some sumilar one!! i have used oke and its great!so that ll fix the look problem at the area u point!!  hope i had helped u

Does anyone have talked about shine cloth? I've try some of my old shirt & I realized there's a lot of variation between those so called Cotton cloth (There's a tight woven one etc)

I see at some website mostly offer Flannel based cloth . Is all of thing (Canvas, flannel ETC) really matters actually?

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Originally Posted by fritzl 


suede doesn't stretch evenly and due to the loafer construction it will not keep the shape. waste of time and money, imo.
if I should be wrong, i stand corrected.

i bought some spray today. Should i try or not?

I really want to be able to wear this loafer because it's the only black one i got; the other two are brown.

if something like this is "passable" then i won't even bother, but i'm assuming it's not.