Quick question about proper polish color

[teddieriley]

I'm looking to polish my tan C&J Cliffords and Edwardian colored EGs, but don't want to darken them. There might have been a previous thread on this, but I couldn't find it. I hear neutral might darken the color even, and IIRC, someone mentioned that tan kiwi polish might darken, but am not sure. Any suggestions?

Which is lighter, the Kiwi "mid-Tan" or "Tan"?

 

[Pundit]

Tan is quite a bit lighter than Mid Tan.

 

[Holdfast]

Kiwi make a Light Tan (at least for the UK market), than is considerably lighter than Mid Tan. I've only recently discovered it myself, and it's much better on colours like C&J tan Cliffords than the Mid-Tan which I previously used.

I also find both to be a major improvements over neutral, which bizarrely tends to darken light tan shoes.

 

[teddieriley]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

Kiwi make a Light Tan (at least for the UK market), than is considerably lighter than Mid Tan. I've only recently discovered it myself, and it's much better on colours like C&J tan Cliffords than the Mid-Tan which I previously used. I also find both to be a major improvements over neutral, which bizarrely tends to darken light tan shoes.
Thanks. My web searches show that light tan is indeed available in UK, but I have not found a source in the U.S. I'm not inclined to order one tin of polish from the UK, even if I could. Maybe the answer is to use tan, and avoid mid-tan as a concurrent thread suggests.

 

[jml90]

Looking at Kiwi's light tan it looks no different online than Kiwi's tan, I also think that either Lincoln or Angelus makes a better polish.

 

[Mr_Sweden]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

Kiwi make a Light Tan (at least for the UK market), than is considerably lighter than Mid Tan. I've only recently discovered it myself, and it's much better on colours like C&J tan Cliffords than the Mid-Tan which I previously used.

I also find both to be a major improvements over neutral, which bizarrely tends to darken light tan shoes.

I would recommend C&Js tan polish for those shoes. After all, they are the one who produced the shoe.

/Mr S

 

[well-kept]

Meltonian makes several light tan cream polishes. I use 'saddle' on EG acorn. 'Light brown' is another, close in tone. Neither will darken.

 

[Roger]

Well, there are lots of light tan creams from Meltonian, Woly, Collonil, and Saphir (these last two being the best IME), and others, but these tend to be water-based and are useful more for moisturizing and, perhaps, recoloring scuffs than they are for providing real protection against the elements. For the latter, we need what--for lack of a better term--we might call "polish"--the stuff that comes in flat cans and is turpentine-based (Saphir) or Stoddard Solvent-based (Kiwi and others). This seems to be where the OP question is focused.

Here's a link to Franco's who stock the Saphir line. In that line of polishes, they have a hazelnut color, which I have and which is a super-light tan. After using the Saphir cream first, this is what I use on my light tan shoes.

http://www.francos.com/items/index.a...atID=Men/Shoes