I was gradually reorganizing my closets (and weeding things into keep, donate, and sell piles), when I came upon unopened Kiwi shoe polish I bought on clearance from Target last year.
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I forgot that I bought it with the intention of polishing my black Steven Intyce boots (
that fit my calves) before I put them away for the summer. When I pulled out the boots, they were dusty (even though I stored them in a dustbag) and showed significant signs of last year's wear. Pittsburgh weather is hard on shoes and I am especially hard on boots. My clumsiness resulted in more than a few scratches.
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I put down some newspaper, wiped off dirt and dust with a babywipe, and started polishing away! Here's a photo with one tip done (on the bottom):
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Although the single use polish was for a regular, non-boot pair of shoes, it was ample polish for two coats on the entire pair of boots.
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The polish restored their shine and hopefully I will remember to do this regularly, to protect the leather and extend the life of my favorite relatively-affordable, leather, wider-calf circumference boots! It's such an easy fix, I can't believe I forgot to do it last year!
5 comments:
yay! I had the same problem with all my boots when I lived in chicago, they would totally get ruined. I can't believe I didn't think of polishing them...the salt is what mainly kills them. Thanks for the tip!
wow, that turned out awesome!
Your boots look awesome now! Nice and new!
Lovely blog! I will def. be back!
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Angela, I felt so silly after I saw how much of an improvement it made. Apparently, polishing shoes isn't just for older businessmen.
Becca, I was so surprised. I had kind of low expectations.
Dylana, Thanks for reading! I will check out your blog.
I hear ya, I meant to polish my black boots before putting them away but forgot as well, I really need to do it this weekend
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