MY LOCAL COBBLER INSTALLED SOLE SAVERS ON MY SHOES: ARE THEY WORH IT?
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I’ve been addicted to shoe shining since I’ve started watching your videos. Just did my first mirror shine on a pair of Cole Haans yesterday. And now I’m so into shoes that I’m planning on getting a pair of Carminas on my next purchase. Keep up the good work!
The struggle is real lol.
Hey Elegant Oxford, came across your videos yesterday and binged all your content, even went so far as to finally buy good shoe trees and a whole batch of Saphir cream and a horse-hair brush! Now I have a weird request, I find your videos really comforting, so an idea would be to upload a complete cleaning once, just unedited from the tripod. Would be great to fall asleep to and see more detail in your technique. Again, love your content and attention to detail. Cheers!
Thank you so much!
I think this happens to a good deal of people once they discover the Elegant Oxford yours truly included.
Thank you. I just realized from this video I’ve been using WAY too much water in my shine, thank you
I have my local cobbler install sole savers on most of my leather soled shoes. Here in Wisconsin, winter weather is brutal and takes it toll on leather soles.
That’s a great idea
Cobbler recommendation? I'm in Wisconsin as well.
My husband & I are leather makers, we see neglect of all leather products.
blot dry leather when wet, keep leather supple by applying product to your item regularly, like you would clean your garments.
The animal who use to wear this hide, use to create natural oils to keep his outter covering supple.
He can no longer keep it soft and pliable, you have to do it, it up to you.
its a labor of love & pride in your purchase .
me too... but I also have tried my hand at adding some myself.
Ok, so I'm mad at you for getting me addicted to this new hobby. I went to my local Goodwill and thrift store and I know have 12 pairs of shoes in all colors and brands. I bought 200.00 worth of shoe shining gear and have been working it for over three days. My friends think I'm nuts but they all love my old shoes..lol
Haha! I thought it was just me.
That's awesome man! You must be so satisfied
Same here.. but also my dad for teaching me how to shine shoes.
Same here! I am now a proud owner of an impressive shoe collection, including some custom made by myself.
Chicks Always look at the shoes!👞
Love how the colour turned out, they look great. I will be a dissenting voice here though, I do not understand sole savers. I love the look and more importantly the sound of leather soled shoes. It seems counter intuitive to me to put a piece of rubber on a nice leather sole.
Here in Montréal... sole guards are almost a must... love your content.
What’s your experience in winter? Boots with sole guards? I have several dress shoes but I am afraid they couldn’t survive the winter here.
I agree concerning the sole savers: I have a pair of Tricker's single monks with broguing - they have sole savers. I hope to wear them many times (they also help protect and grip in the UK weather).
Lovely patina btw - not too over the top - classy :-)
So glad you say some shoes take hours to make a little progress when it comes to mirror shine,. I thought i lost this skill already
Like riding a bicycle 🚲
Elegant Oxford you are so interesting, helpful and polite! Thanks for your cool video - plus audio bomb of KirbyAllison at 6:52
Thanks!
That’s a nice color space somewhere between bourbon, chili and tobacco shades. It turned out nice.
Ty Preston I started watching kirby and then found you. Both are very high quality and very knowledgeable!😎
You are the absolute man, Preston! Kirby Allison crashing your video was totally off the chain. I live in San Diego County, too, man. Keep up the good work. I'm going to be trying for my first mirror shine pretty soon.
Let’s meet up and shine shoes one of these days.
Because of your other video, NOW I know what the stamped label means on the sole. 👍🏼
Every time I bought a new pair of oxfords I immediately head to a cobbler to install the sole savers on them. Even if it has a rubber sole I still do it. With the sole being thicker It means that the shoe can last longer. One of the things I also gave them to install Is the metal heel plate. Those annoying heel drags always create imbalance when I walk. I bought my shoes which aren't cheap so obviously I want them to last longer
You seriously have skills. I want to try to get that color effect; however, I’m scared I’ll ruin them. Awesome.
The colour and shade variations of these shoes look so rich and beautiful. Any outfit would be set off perfectly with these shoes. You are a master!
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Just a real pleasure. A real treat to watch your videos. Thank you so much for sharing
Thanks for posting glad I found your channel
Thanks so much for recommending regal!!! I live in San Diego, and have been sitting on multiple pairs of shoes needing fixing as I was worried about finding a quality cobbler ❤
I’ve been using some savers for over thirty years but the downside is the side profile. The sole savers make the soles taller and less sleek in my opinion but they do last
Worth it in my opinion.
Don’t they have thinner rubber sheets that you cut yourself and do yourself?
I just a pair of GS diesel with leather soles and I want to install sole savers. Thanks for the tip, I’m also in San Diego and will go here. Thanks for the recommendation.
Amazing art
You are a gold mine !!!!
Simply amazing! The shoes look awesome. Another work of art by the ‘Elegant Oxford’. Thanks for sharing...Ed
You are so right: some pairs take hours to wax and that's the way the cookie crumbles!
Can’t wait for this collab
I really like that color. They turned out fantastic.
Thank you!!!
Your channel has inspired me to start dressing “UP” once again. After my divorce, I gave up that life style. But now, you gave me the chance to go back to that lifestyle. I need to spoil myself. In fact I just ordered a pair of Berluti shoes. Thank you.
Absolutely stunning--thanks!
How would you protect your nice dress shoes against rain? How do you take care of them long term in such climates. As a Belgian student looking for his first pair (looking at tlb artista's) this worries me quite greatly.
Look at Swims overshoes.
A plush microfibre cloth works wonders for a mirrorshine.
I live in Hong Kong where we have a lot of rain here, leather sole wear down real quick
Not to mention slippery. Rubber soles have their place definitely.
Paul So Rain doesn’t spoil leather sole, as you walk in the rain with leather sole shoe, the leather pick up small, small,stones. You are walking on the small stones not the leather. It has been tested and proven ages ago.
I’m also from San Diego, Love your videos brother 🙏
Hey I found those pair of shoe trees (ones on the wall at the store) for $12 at a Winners near my place!
I just love the look, feel and sound of leather so I have a hard time covering it with rubber.
Where do you get your brushes and what brand are they? I did my first shoe dye job (a pair of Taft Jack shoes in oxblood) but the brushes I used were crap. I love the channel and thanks for your help.
I ordered some Saphir mirror from Amazon but it's taking SO LONG to get here (been over 2 weeks now) and with me traveling in 3 days, I'm going to have to put plain old Kiwi Parade Gloss just because it's the only thing available locally.
I thought we were going to talk about sole savers, not have another video of polishing shoes!!!
Tricked ya
I am planning to dye a dark brown shoe black. I noticed that you didn't use tape to mask off areas of the shoe? Also did you dye the tongue of the shoe too (seems a bit tricky to do so)?
Mirror Shine? I guess it's a nicer way of saying "spit shine" which is what I am used to. I did try different colors of Kiwi when shining combat boots. I found blue worked well for me. I also used Neutral which seemed even softer than regular Kiwi. Smelled worse, too. We used Parade Gloss as well, but my favorite was Lincoln Wax. It smelled better, and was as hard as Parade Gloss. I don't use polish on my work boots, but maybe I should at least clean them and put a coat of some kind of leather protectant on them to make them last.
Pure Art, great job. Bravo from Italy. Ciao 👍👏🔝
Nice info on the mirror shine. Thanks.
hey E.O.... your shoe choices are fabulous... i'm curious just what you wear to go along with them... a custom made suit? Dungarees? Khakis?
Gold parachute pants.
What a tease!! Bring on the Dallas trip!! 😂
The other day, i swore you had uploaded a video, i watched it and everything! LOL I was FIRST, then POOF, it was gone...
Angela Buteau I remember that video. What happened was he uploaded it, took it down, then uploaded it again. You must’ve watched and commented on the one he took down.
@@eyeheartsushi2212 I sure did...lol I guess that's never happened to me before!
Mirror shine secret: patience.
and a lot of practice!
Wow that’s looks really nice.
I managed to mirror shine recently! Although it feels like the method is extremely ineffective and time wasting but at least somewhat consistent.
I start with a layer of wax, polish it gently until dry, then add some water with a new spot on my cloth with medium pressure and then on another clean spot on my cloth i continue to polish with some "breth moisture" while reducing my pressure to extremely light. When the first layer feels like perfect i add the second with the same method. One layer takes about 5-10 minutes, so the overall process is at least an hour for a pair (5-7 layers for the shine to develop). When i stick to the same spot on my cloth while switching water/wax the shine dulls again. Any suggestions for improvement?
ntotheever mexican shoe shiners use beat up jeans to give fast shine to shoe tips
@@AH-yg2dj I'll try it.
I love how you use acetone to open the creases on a thrift store shoe. Care to volunteer further?
Im going to stop by there today to drop off my shoes!
Awesome!
Looks so good. You got me wanting a nice pair of dress shoes. Where to start for a black pair?
Hello Elegant Oxford, I love your videos. I have a question. I have a pair of horse riding shoes witch goes knee high. How can I make upper top crisp less again, like normally shoe with shoetree? That would be interesting video. Thank you in front.
Good job, soled and shining shoes
I don't like Topy's pattern. Vibram's has a sleeker profile and is more aesthetically more pleasing to me. Unfortunately, few cobblers carry it.
Nice Kirby and SOTO in 1 video I hope 2 see a shine session video soon
these shoes are incredible! 😍😍😍
Thank you!
Bravo
I live in La Jolla. It was 93 on the coast. Yikes.
Nice! I was in Texas this weekend and it rained the whole time.
Where did you get those custom shoe trees? 🔥
Thanks for the tips, how to maintain the shoe.I got a question!Is this sole savers also works for hand made
boots?
Hi, you should show how you lace your shoes.
👍Thanks
What I want to know is, why would somebody buy a leather soled shoe just to have it covered with a sole saver? Unless you are buying it at a discount? Surely it would be better to buy a rubber soled shoe to begin with? Or maybe a leather soled shoe with a sole saver will last far longer than a dainite sole?
@@naegleriafowleri2230 leather soles are absolutely dangerous on tiled or polished stone floors. Ask me how I know.
@@naegleriafowleri2230 a piece of equal thickness will have to be added to the heel as well to maintain the height balance. Might as well go for rubber soles. Not PU of course. They break up if not worn frequently.
Great channel. Great stuff
Hi Preston, nice to see you and Kirby hanging out together. I also see you have one of Kirby’s water bottles, I just hope he gifted it to you. Now for the serious question, do you, like Kirby, wear a hand made suit, white hand made dress shirt and a Kirby Allison sovereign grade ancient madder tie while doing your polishing??? I have actually told Kirby to wear an old t-shirt to shine his shoes like most of us do. I actually feel like his father getting on his case for doing something crazy like that!
I’m usually in my pajamas when I shine and I don’t even own a suit that fits at the moment. It’s my wife’s cooking I tell ya.
Thank your job is amazing, i love it! And respect you 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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@ 6:45 Hilarious!
I would shine my moms shoes when I was 9 up because she was a busy lady, but insisted on shined shoes. The spit shine goes faster with a little more build up put on and buffed off before doing the polish. Really you are polishing the wax surface, nothing more. If you have shoes that are kept polished, even without a spit shine, then doing it is very fast. There is definitely a knack to it. In the Navy I had a Philippine Stewart mate... I would guess he was 60 years old a seaman, E3 pay grade. He could spit shine anything in a few minutes.... I mean anything, even worn working boots. Other than that his pastimes where craps playing and smoking! Now mom often wore nappa leather ankle boots, with fleece lining, when it was cold and switch to dress indoors. Those were very difficult to keep shined both due to weather effects like cold, slush, salt and etc. They needed to be waterproofed too due to that environment. So they were strip.. with acetone.... then polish every day. I would Kiwi wax polish after 2-3 cream polish layers brushed between each coat. The next to last step was taking and filling the gap between the welt and the uppers with wax buffing to take overage off. The final was to flame them over a gas stove... providing the mirror like shine. But the large build up needed to be removed after she got home... and the entire process reapplied... with the Kiwi over the prepped with the cream polish step done in the early mourning before she was off to the courthouse. Then I would do my shoes. But that build up cracks in just the day of use and you have to remove and start over, when that happens.
I do not recommend the British way... When we were kids we often when to visit my grandmother in England. She lived on the west tony side of town, not more than a few blocks from the palace. Mom always came for the whole time, as she interrupted her career when we were little. Grandmother had given us ceramic figures of the Household Guard I got the mounted guard and my brother the foot guard or Busbie "bear skin hat" ones. Often I would ride my bike to the royal stables where the guard congregated... this was over 60 years ago so it was the old stables. I would walk in and look at the horses and talk with the guardsmen... British Army. They would be hanging around waiting for the time when they had to perform the change of guard or some other ceremony. So I learned the British way... they soaked the shoes or boot is urine at least overnight when new... the tall boots would be sponged overall with the urine, then the bottom part be soaked... let dry and then did the polish much like I did with the flame at the end. I cannot remember why the did the soak... and I was always very inquisitive... I think it had to do with closing the pores of the leather.... its been a very long time now. Like wanting to know about the tack and all that used. So they were always stripping the polish off to reapply as it could crack easy. The flame thing gives absolute the highest polish and is reliable. I got to ride the horse of the Sergeant Major sometimes as he was always looking out for the little ginger haired kid... who wanted to be a guardsman when he grew up... thing is British Army is a 20 year enlistment! We went not at all after I was 9 because mom went back to work, and she hated many English grandmother... as she was German... and in those days she would take guff from my grandmother, family and friends due to the war... many had their houses destroyed in the "Blitz". My great aunt Dot lived in Coventry, that you know.
I might add being sent to public school in America in your public school dress of England guarantees a fight every day... particularly if you lived in Wyoming, and had a bit of a brit accent. But I still like to dress at least a little up when I am out, and my father's mom was a great lady to have as a grandmother... !
A final comment you do need to clean, treat and shine the bottom of your leather soles every time you polish.
As all ways great video.
Nice shine! 👍❤️
Pease show how to lace a pair of shoe.
I started using very cold, sometimes iced, water... just have to be patient... very, very nice work! Appreciate The Hanger Project, too. Try to dress well! At 9:30 and on, magnificent finish! May I ask where you obtain laces....Have not gotten quality I want in flat, waxed from eBay, amazon.
Thanks for the videos!
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Hello, I would want to ask how do you condition the leather under the mirror shine after a while? Do you remove it frequently or ..? I like your channel :)
How do you shine shoes that have darker patina on some parts like the tip? Do you used different color polish or just use one to cover the whole shoe?
I prefer the aethetics of just the leather sole especially if it is a JR sole.
Kirby ❤👌
Nice vid, San diegans - woot!
Yes!
I'm sure you said, but I'm still not getting exactly what the cold water does. I know it works, I use it, but don't know why it works, in conjunction with the wax and heat from friction. At first blush, it seems like it wouldn't do a thing, or defeat what you're trying to do, but it does work. Why eludes me. Oh, I have actually set my shoes in the fridge for a bit after starting the mirror shine process. It seems to speed up the process a bit... again, I don't know why. Shouldn't, but does.
I add sole savers to all of my shoes. What is it worth to not fall?
If sole guards are glued, is there a chance that they can simply come off with heavy wear? Sole guards vs sending back to factory for Dainite sole ? Which would you suggest ?
You can use Master All Purpose Cement. It's really strong, but you have to follow the directions. Shouldn't have any issues.
woooow !!!!!
I am curious about the brand of sole savers that were used..
Are sole savers enough if the front of the shoe is worn down quickly or is a combination with toe taps better in that case?
Either works. With plates it’s even better but sole slavers do a great job
What type of rag do you have wrapped around your fingers?
Just an old T-shirt
Some people go bare leather to pavement and I just cannot imagine that ever. I knock on wood when I say that I have never had to go to a cobbler for a resole. I prefer a leather soul over rubber, but I just cannot file down my leather soles on the cement
Hey James. Rubber soles and dainite are becoming extremely popular. Crockett & Jones and even TLB Mallorca offer it so it’s definitely an industry standard at this point. And they’re more durable
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I have several pairs of daynights that I soley use for rainy days. But as for my leather soles, I religiously cover them all with a sole protector. I wish that they were made transparent so that I could sport a long lasting marble painted piece of art like what you make. Transparent rubber does exist as I’ve seen it in use for sneakers but it’s just a matter of getting them into production as Sole protectors For real shoes.
So... what size do you personally wear? do you like AE Mapletons?
Can you make a cheap shoe look fancier and improve its quality a bit?
Hi Preston.. do you typically get both sole and heel when you get your sole guards?
That cobbler is literally 15 min away!!
Would you recommend adding sole savers and steel toe plates? Or are sole savers good enough?
You can do both if you want. I like the combo look.
Is there already a video of your shoe collection up?!?
Not yet!
What up Kirby!!!
Haha audio bomber
Is there any reason for the leather to be underneath sole protector? Could it be some other material and to be as "good"? Im just curious about the sole protector because you dont use the leather so whats the point.
Is there a special name for the wax used to shine shoes (I'm new to this)
Why would you want to spoil the integrity of your shoe by putting rubber on the sole? shoes should be worn as bought. I have never put rubber on my leather sole shoes. Does it make the shoes feel different?
If you are in a wet climate its really useful. I don't find it affects the feel of the shoe, no.
I am a belt-and braces man: I have added sole savers on my triple-sole pair of JM Weston.
I put them on all my shoes. They provide traction.
Nice!