How much is too scuffed?

[piff]

Good afternoon. I've been looking around SF casually for a couple weeks now. It's a neat place.

I have a question about a pair of shoes I saw at a local thrift store. They're Allen Edwards, but are pretty severely scuffed. Now, I don't wear nice shoes for a living, so I don't have a lot of knowledge regarding when something can be salvaged, and when it's time to look elsewhere.

This pair has what seems like excessive scuffing, but I can't tell if it's due to neglect from their last owners or from being shipped in a box of dozens of shoes. They don't appear to be gouged or anything, but they've been what looks like fairly well used, and have creases as well.

So, is this pair beyond hope?

Thanks and regards.

(Sorry for the cell pic. It truly is a bad one.)

 

[piff]

Sorry. Posted the wrong pic. Sometimes they come out small on the camera.

Regards.

 

[pebblegrain]

ask yourself, would you wear them?

if no, do not buy
if yes, consider further

 

[NAMOR]

If these are intended to be a casual pair of shoes, say for jeans or khakis, then you can make them work. If you want to wear these with a pair of wool pants and crisp clean shirt, then I say they are too scuffed. If its the former and these AE's are less than $10 bucks, you can't really lose. Buy them and clean them up a bit.

Apply a coat of shoe polish, let it sit for a few minutes, then buff with a horse brush. Repeat 3 times and then post pics. Would be interested to see how they turn out. Good luck and welcome to SF!

 

[cptjeff]

Just polish them. Your pics are crappy, but unless the damage is much worse then it appears to be, that's exactly the kind of thing that polishing is intended to clean up.

Also, it's Allen Edmonds.

 

[meister]

They may be corrected grain/binder leather in which case the scuffing cannot be remedied easily or at all.

 

[Wolfador]

you may also be able to send them in for a recraft and have AE clean up the scuffs for you.