Help me repair my leather shoes!

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I just bought a pair of the Y3 X Adidas white leather sneakers. Long story short, they have scratches and dirt all over them now. How do I go about repairing these shoes? The leather isn't shiny, it is very soft and smooth.

This is how they used to look like:

[neawts]

Any pics of what they look like now?

[darknworn]

use a leather cleaner to clean off the dirt, then rub with white shoe polish to repair the scratches.

why bother? white shoes don't look good until they've earned character.

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Any pics of what they look like now?

--- Original message by neawts on Jul 31, 2005 09:40 PM

Yea here they are:

Needless to say, I'm a bit heartbroken.

[Guest bed]

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use a leather cleaner to clean off the dirt, then rub with white shoe polish to repair the scratches.

why bother? white shoes don't look good until they've earned character.

--- Original message by darknworn on Jul 31, 2005 09:45 PM

Thanks for the tip darknworn. What kind of leather cleaner and shoe polish should I use? Is there anything else I could do besides the common procedure?

[darknworn]

you can buy the leather cleaner at a normal athletic shoe store. it usually comes in a spray can. if not, use club soda to clean. you don't have much of a choice in shoe polish, just find the white type. after you've clean your shoes, put some shoe polish on a clean rag and rub in your shoes until the scratches are gone.

"God is Dead" - Nietzsche

"Neitzsche is Dead" - God

[Circa]

Here you go:

http://www.superfuture.com/city/supertalk/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=2395

If you invest a good amount of money on your shoes you should also invest money on products to take care of them. A company called Tana makes some great leather cleaning stuff and it can be found at most shoe stores or shoe repair shops. The one thing to remember when cleaning a white shoe (or any shoe that uses paint for coloring the leather) is to NEVER use any product with alcohol in it. Alcohol is a great leather/suede cleaner when used *very* lightly but can also strip the dye/paint right off. Another good trick for cleaning light scuffs on leather is to use a mild skin/hand lotion. It's mild and not very abrasive so it works really well for sneakers, just put a dab on the area you want to clean and wipe it out with a soft cloth. White polishes are decent and usually work fairly well too, but like any colored polish they generally have to be re-applied every so often as they rub off with wear.

[meditation]

They will clean up fine. Use a toothbrush on the sole and whatever else was mentioned for the leather. New laces if you gots some pocket change.

[neawts]

I use a big pink eraser to erase scuffs on unpainted rubber midsoles. It always works for me. Soap and water just lighten scuffs when I use it.