**The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

[mry8s]

Cocktail parties, nightclubs, and urinals are brutal on good shoes.

Why bother having great shoes if you can't go places where you want to look good?

You can always sit down for the last one if you need to though.

 

[Zapasman]

Cocktail parties, nightclubs, and urinals are brutal on good shoes.

And we must live with the issue.

 

[westie187]



Cocktail parties, nightclubs, and urinals are brutal on good shoes.

First world problems

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Not really. My shoes got the most beat up ever in Cambodia.

 

[traverscao]

Not really. My shoes got the most beat up ever in Cambodia.

LOL!!! Perhaps sometimes in the future you oughtta wear combat boots to SE Asia.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Well, they were veg tanned leather sneakers, but still.

 

[traverscao]

Wait... Your sneakers are veg tanned???? Where the hell do you get such things???? I thought they all used CG or chromed leather!

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I own these: http://www.nomanwalksalone.com/index.php/footwear/sneakers/tanino-high-sneaker-black-calf-1429.html

 

[traverscao]

Holy ****, man. I don't wear sneakers, ever, but those are lovely, especially when they are environmentally friendly.

They hold up nice, too, ain't they?

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I only wear them in Cambodia. So far, so good.

 

[traverscao]

Hell, they take field conditions like candies, huh?

 

[traverscao]

You ever treat 'em with anything?

 

[Fred G. Unn]



You ever treat 'em with anything?

I have 2 pairs of Butteros (and one canvas pair) and I've definitely used Renovateur and/or Bick4 on them before. BTW, Yoox just had a blowout sale on them a week or so ago. I picked up this canvas pair for $106. Should be fun to wear casually in the summer.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



Hell, they take field conditions like candies, huh?

I went hiking in a forest with them, rode an elephant with them, even got stuck in shin deep mud. They seem fine and dandy. I have used Leather Doctor's Hydrator and Fatliquor on them as well as a brush.

 

[traverscao]

I have 2 pairs of Butteros (and one canvas pair) and I've definitely used Renovateur and/or Bick4 on them before. BTW, Yoox just had a blowout sale on them a week or so ago. I picked up this canvas pair for $106. Should be fun to wear casually in the summer.

I don't have that great a relationship with canvas shoes, however, for some, they breathe better, so, to each of their own, I guess.

I went hiking in a forest with them, rode an elephant with them, even got stuck in shin deep mud. They seem fine and dandy. I have used Leather Doctor's Hydrator and Fatliquor on them as well as a brush.

More than just excellent. Reminds me of my vintage combat boots, although mine was treated differently and had seen some very violent use and abuse throughout their life.