Polishing Shoe Bottoms

[beachape]

I know this is not necessary, but for those that do polish your shoe bottoms I have a couple questions.

1) If your soles are natural colored (...light brown), do you use the same polish as the upper (black in my case) or do you use natural?

2) Do you use wax or cream for the soles?

3) Do you do the whole sole, or just the area that doesn't get stepped on (near the heel)?

Thanks!

 

[cioni2k]

Polishing the whole sole sounds like a terrible idea. How would you not slip and die?

 

[chasingred]

Don't bother polishing. I get mine resoled after every wear. It requires that you have about 60 pairs of shoes, since at any point you'll have like 50 pairs in some kind of resoling stage, but it's worth it.

 

[Xiaogou]

Originally Posted by cioni2k

Polishing the whole sole sounds like a terrible idea. How would you not slip and die?

For real!

 

[voxsartoria]

Polish shoe bottoms the same way that you would any other bottom.


- B

 

[intent]

When I was a young cadet, I used to apply polish to the bottom of my boots where the sole doesn't touch the ground so that the sole was a uniform black.

Nowadays I just make sure the bottoms of my soles are clean and free of crap.

 

[pebblegrain]

Originally Posted by intent

Nowadays I just make sure the bottom are clean and free of crap.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Polish shoe bottoms the same way that you would any other bottom.


- B


yep

 

[Eustace Tilley]

This is crazy.

 

[bleachboy]

I do my soles a couple of times a year. You use a product called "sole and edge dressing" which is just basically ink. It comes in black and brown.

You don't use shoe polish on your soles. Jesus.

 

[chestercopperpot]

really? i mean really?

 

[scurvyfreedman]

Step 1. Learn ukemi
Step 2. Polish bottoms
Step 3. Peform ukemi

 

[EBugatti]

TROLL alert. Please don't feed the trolls.

 

[hypostatic]

Originally Posted by EBugatti

TROLL alert. Please don't feed the trolls.

I don't know this time - it's more creative than the usual

 

[bengal-stripe]

Originally Posted by Eustace Tilley

This is crazy.

An opinion not shared by the late Diana Vreeland, fashion editor extraordinaire,

Oh and don't forget to do as Vreeland and always polish the soles of your shoes for that extra bang of chic!

http://anonwomen.blogspot.com/2009/1...-vreeland.html

http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...32&postcount=4

 

[Fishball]

Originally Posted by beachape

I know this is not necessary, but for those that do polish your shoe bottoms I have a couple questions.

1) If your soles are natural colored (...light brown), do you use the same polish as the upper (black in my case) or do you use natural?

2) Do you use wax or cream for the soles?

3) Do you do the whole sole, or just the area that doesn't get stepped on (near the heel)?

Thanks!

You need not to polish the sole, but you could apply the sole conditioner: