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Storing you shoes: Bags or no bags?

norcaltransplant

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Unworn (yes, I know) and seasonal shoes are stored in bags with trees until the appropriate season. My regular rotation is shoved into every nook, cranny, and storage area of my studio apartment (armoir-6 pairs, underneath the futon-7 pairs, hanging shoe organizer- 5 pairs).
 

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Originally Posted by norcaltransplant
Unworn (yes, I know) and seasonal shoes are stored in bags with trees until the appropriate season.

Do you put shoe trees even in unworn pairs?
 

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Originally Posted by AlanC
Do you put shoe trees even in unworn pairs?

Of course
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though mostly only the cheap plastic ones, I'm working my way towards replacing them with wooden ones but it's difficult to get to that particular shop that sells them cheap.
 

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Originally Posted by AlanC
Do you put shoe trees even in unworn pairs?

I do. I only have 7 pairs of quality shoes and the only shoes I haven't worn are some black Lattanzi shoes. I have kept trees in them, I plan to wear them to some of my fathers' performances at Benaroya Hall this month. I had an aversion to black shoes long before joining this forum and am still apprehensive but the performances are formal and I don't want to shame the family name.
 

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Originally Posted by hossoso
I plan to wear them to some of my fathers' performances at Benaroya Hall this month. I had an aversion to black shoes long before joining this forum and am still apprehensive but the performances are formal and I don't want to shame the family name.
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norcaltransplant

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Originally Posted by AlanC
Do you put shoe trees even in unworn pairs?

No. I found that newsprint paper (not the newspaper, just stock brown paper), does wonders for maintaining a creaseless leather plane.
 

zjpj83

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trees + bags. My more expensive shoes, such as John Lobbs and Edward Greens, I store in their original boxes. Everything else I have on racks.

My hope is that someday I can build some sort of racks that will protect them all from dust plus let me keep them out of their bags and boxes so that I can look at them whenever I want.
 

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Originally Posted by norcaltransplant
Unworn (yes, I know) and seasonal shoes are stored in bags with trees until the appropriate season. My regular rotation is shoved into every nook, cranny, and storage area of my studio apartment (armoir-6 pairs, underneath the futon-7 pairs, hanging shoe organizer- 5 pairs).


LOL, looks like you sure got your priorities straight!
More shoes, more shoes, I'd give up square footage for shoes.
 

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I'd like to see what norcaltransplant's apartment would look like filled with aportnoy's shoes...
 

jmonroestyle

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I keep all my lace-up ankle boots and western boots out on shelves all around my bedroom.

At one point someone poked their head in, saw all my boots and remarked, "It looks like you are living in your closet."

I can't think of anything more interesting to decorate one's walls with than one's footwear collection. Can you?
 

luk-cha

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Originally Posted by chobochobo
Of course
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though mostly only the cheap plastic ones, I'm working my way towards replacing them with wooden ones but it's difficult to get to that particular shop that sells them cheap.


dude you must have some serious amount of shoes!
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so i have heard! hehe
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i need to get some more too also customized to, but norm i just put the on the rack with shoe tree's in
 

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Originally Posted by Tomasso
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@ Tomasso: Uh-oh, did I say something stupid or pretentious? Let me know quickly so I can delete it and no one else can quote it. I'll do my best to curtail the eye-roll worthy comments from here on though my best is typically quite poor as I normally check this forum after the bar and before bed.
 

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I'd like to see what norcaltransplant's apartment would look like filled with aportnoy's shoes...
From what I understand, aportnoy would need a mansion to fit all of his shoes.
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I keep my on shelves. The bags in a pile next to my 3 piles of garment bags from various retailers.

Perry
 

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