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arsenalmorris said:
Yea mate. Best to use the ready mixed sugar soap instead of the stuff you need to mix to save any problems. Clean em off and make em damp but not wet. Go over each panel one at a time with a tooth brush and sugar soap lathering it up and then when done the whole show clean em off with clean water and leave to dry naturally not near heat, brush the suede regularly as they dry to bring up the nap of the suede.
Like you say. Practice on an old pair first a few times
I'll give it a go next week when I get back to where all my dirty trainers are Seen it done by plenty of lads on the Facebook pages, I was going to pay to get one pair of the London's done by a restoration guy but if I get it done on some old Gazelle's without messing it up then I'll just do them myself.Like you say. Practice on an old pair first a few times
arsenalmorris said:
BrabusMog said:
Cheers, I think I'll try it out on some old Gazelle's first then.
Yea mate. Best to use the ready mixed sugar soap instead of the stuff you need to mix to save any problems. Clean em off and make em damp but not wet. Go over each panel one at a time with a tooth brush and sugar soap lathering it up and then when done the whole show clean em off with clean water and leave to dry naturally not near heat, brush the suede regularly as they dry to bring up the nap of the suede. Like you say. Practice on an old pair first a few times
Are they somehow valuable? I'd have just chucked them in the washing machine in a pillow case and if that didn't work, binned them.
Disastrous said:
arsenalmorris said:
BrabusMog said:
Cheers, I think I'll try it out on some old Gazelle's first then.
Yea mate. Best to use the ready mixed sugar soap instead of the stuff you need to mix to save any problems. Clean em off and make em damp but not wet. Go over each panel one at a time with a tooth brush and sugar soap lathering it up and then when done the whole show clean em off with clean water and leave to dry naturally not near heat, brush the suede regularly as they dry to bring up the nap of the suede. Like you say. Practice on an old pair first a few times
Are they somehow valuable? I'd have just chucked them in the washing machine in a pillow case and if that didn't work, binned them.
It's the trainer aficionados equivalent to the military polishing regimes some people go through on here for a pair of old school shoes.
BrabusMog said:
Disastrous said:
arsenalmorris said:
BrabusMog said:
Cheers, I think I'll try it out on some old Gazelle's first then.
Yea mate. Best to use the ready mixed sugar soap instead of the stuff you need to mix to save any problems. Clean em off and make em damp but not wet. Go over each panel one at a time with a tooth brush and sugar soap lathering it up and then when done the whole show clean em off with clean water and leave to dry naturally not near heat, brush the suede regularly as they dry to bring up the nap of the suede. Like you say. Practice on an old pair first a few times
Are they somehow valuable? I'd have just chucked them in the washing machine in a pillow case and if that didn't work, binned them.
It's the trainer aficionados equivalent to the military polishing regimes some people go through on here for a pair of old school shoes.
That's fair enough. I guess it makes more sense to me to spend time/money looking after something that cost a good few hundred quid but I'd always seen trainers as semi-disposable. But now you say it, of course people would look after limited editions etc.
LordGrover said:
I really ought to try Danite soles sometime soon.
I need some too as I almost stacked it on a busy Oxford Street a couple of weeks ago in the rain in my leather soled Church's.Gizlaroc, any recommendations please? To give you an idea of styles I currently wear Cheaney Ewan, Church's Shergar & Maltby among others
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