Save our soles! Cobblers on the 15 best ways to look after your shoes
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<p>Rotate your trainers, oil your leather footwear and use toe protectors – and whatever you do, don’t chuck your shoes in the washing machine</p><p>Now that trainers have supplanted smart shoes for so many occasions, and people replace them as often as fashion and budget allow, shoe maintenance is becoming a lost art. But if you love your shoes, it’s well worth pursuing. How can you keep your favourite pairs going for as long as possible? We asked cobblers for their dos and do
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Save our soles! Cobblers on the 15 best ways to look after your shoes Rotate your trainers, oil your leather footwear and use toe protectors – and whatever you do, don’t chuck your shoes in the washing machine N ow that trainers have supplanted smart shoes for so many occasions, and people replace them as often as fashion and budget allow, shoe maintenance is becoming a lost art. But if you love your shoes, it’s well worth pursuing. How can you keep your favourite pairs going for as long as possible? We asked cobblers for their dos and don’ts. Know that there is little a cobbler can’t fix It is time to wise up about shoe care, says Joey Cope, owner of Cobbler Cope in Newquay. “We just kick them off our feet at the end of the day, then the next day. They are getting wet, dry, wet, dry. It takes its toll on shoes.” The UK dumps 149m pairs of shoes in landfill annually , says Chris Hulse, co-owner of Sole and Trail in Kendal . “This is unacceptable when the vast majority can be fixed. Sometimes all it takes is a small gluing or stitching job, and you’re only paying £4 – then those shoes might last for another 12 months or even longer.” “I turn away very little,” says Cope. “With holes in shoes, we can put patches behind and make it look as best as possible from the outside. For splits down the sole, we can put a piece of leather to reinforce the shoe and feed that underneath the insole.” This goes for vegan shoes, too. “If a shoe comes in and it is a rubber or plastic construction, we can still repair it,” says Antony Frith of The Shoe Healer in Doncaster. Lately it’s become possible to get rubber replacement soles for worn-out trainers. “It is a sought-after repair,” says Cope, “because trainers are expensive. If you could pay a quarter or half the price of a pair of trainers for a resole, and your shoes are back on the road again, then job’s a good ’un.” Choose footwear wisely “When buying shoes, often it is about comfort more than anything,” says Cope. “A lot of peo...
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