Oil drip on my Vass suede chukkhas!

[gam29]

Any advice on how to get an oil stain out from brown suede?

I was eating pizza at work the other day, and a glob of grease dripped off the pizza and right onto my brown suede chukkha Vass that I just bought off the forum

any help would be appreciated! i have a cobbler who is good at these sorts of things, but i'm wondering if there's any secrets out there that they won't know about.

 

[alliswell]

Put talc on it as soon as it happens.

 

[yachtie]

google "fullers earth" and put it on the stain. Should absorb most/all of it. works better than talc.

 

[gam29]

this happened a little while ago...would this still work?

 

[yachtie]

Originally Posted by gam29

this happened a little while ago...would this still work?
should, but you'd have to leave it on for a few days. note, apply it thickly, it's an absorbent clay.

 

[gam29]

do you have to rub it into the suede or just put a thick layer of it on top of the shoe where the stain is? i'm just unsure of how exactly to apply this stuff to the shoe.

 

[cioni2k]

I damn near destroyed my brand new Ralph Lauren Suede loafers. Brought them to a good cobbler in NYC to have them "Dry-cleaned" as they put it. Came back looking new. If you don't know what you are doing I suggest this.

 

[Gdot]

Originally Posted by gam29

do you have to rub it into the suede or just put a thick layer of it on top of the shoe where the stain is? i'm just unsure of how exactly to apply this stuff to the shoe.

It will all be ok - I promise.

Don't rub anything until after the stain has been thoroughly blotted up (rule number one of any stain removal.) Rubbing will only push the oil further into the suede.

Between now and when to actually treat the stain wrap a clean white cotton rag tightly around the shoe/stain. This might absorb some of the oil.

Since they are Vass I personally would take them to have them cleaned. Not sure I'd be comfortable messing with them myself. But the truth be told the cobbler will just use some spray on drycleaning solution more likely than not. They'll turn out fine (as long as there were no 'staining agents' such as tomato sauce involved.) Even then a pigmented stain can often be removed and certainly can be died over as a last resort.

If you do use fuller's earth or talc just push it into the affected area as much as possible and rub only lightly as needed to get it to contact the leather. This sort of treatment may require more than one application.

Hope the pizza was terrific - as it's painful to see your 'children' injured isn't it?

 

[gam29]

thanks for the advice. i ended up sending them out to one of the two cobblers I use (one is better with dying/stain removal and applying topy soles; the other is better at flush metal toe caps and resoling). they look pretty good now, but it would be good to have something to remove day to day stains like water drops or other things that may discolor the suede.

^^who is your cobbler in nyc?

 

[idfnl]

Damn. This just happened to me. Olive oil.

Got the talc on it now. Hope it works.