The pro­nounced folds on the upper part of the shoe are called creas­es. They do not rep­re­sent any­thing ter­ri­ble, and some­times they are even and even neat, but some­times they are ugly, and there­fore they can spoil the mood. Is there any way to fight them?

Defects in the form of creases — why

The “reg­istry” of caus­es is, in prin­ci­ple, small:

• First of all, you should name an unsuc­cess­ful­ly matched pair. In the “trans­la­tion” this can mean an incor­rect­ly cho­sen size, inap­pro­pri­ate com­plete­ness, mis­cal­cu­la­tions in the design of the last, as well as the shoe mod­el itself.
• The prob­a­bil­i­ty of more rapid for­ma­tion of creas­es is man­i­fest­ed on poor-qual­i­ty leather, if it is too soft or, con­verse­ly, too hard.
• Illit­er­ate shoe care also affects, includ­ing accel­er­at­ed dry­ing, the use of not very good shoe cos­met­ics, and a long “per­ma­nent” wear of one pair.

How to get rid of a defect

The defect can be deep and shal­low — how to get rid of it depends on its type.

shallow

It is eas­i­er to get rid of shal­low defects and there are sev­er­al ways to do this.

Paper and cream

Boots, boots or shoes are rec­om­mend­ed to be tight­ly stuffed with old crum­pled paper.

Advice! This is best done using news­pa­per pages. In addi­tion to the fact that they can be eas­i­ly crum­pled, they are also able to per­fect­ly absorb mois­ture. Shoe cream is applied to defec­tive areas with a gen­er­ous hand. When this com­po­si­tion is com­plete­ly dry, the paper is removed.

Wax or tint

Small dents are easy to straight­en out using spe­cial wax or tint­ed with shoe paint. Shoes are lib­er­al­ly lubri­cat­ed with cream / wax, and after about a quar­ter of an hour shoe blocks are insert­ed into it, leav­ing it like that for a cou­ple of days and from time to time lubri­cat­ing with care prod­ucts. After the skin has dried, the affect­ed areas are treat­ed with wax.

Note! Shoe col­or­ing creams that involve col­or restora­tion should be matched to the tone of the processed shoe prod­ucts and accord­ing to the tex­ture of the leather, giv­en that the com­po­si­tions for leather and suede prod­ucts are com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent.

Cream

Shal­low “young” dents respond well to any emol­lient cream. Shoes are smeared with it, and then after 15 min­utes they are tight­ly stuffed with crum­pled paper and laid side­ways. The lubri­ca­tion pro­ce­dure is car­ried out for sev­er­al days twice a day. When the creas­es are smoothed out, the excess cream is removed and shoe wax is applied to the shoes. After all these manip­u­la­tions, the paper is removed.

Deep

One way to elim­i­nate deep wrin­kles on leather shoes looks like this:

• The prod­uct is shaped by stuff­ing it with paper.
• After that, the shoes are cov­ered with a “microfiber” cloth soaked in water and left for a while to soft­en the skin. Heat­ing to an aver­age val­ue, an iron equipped with a steam gen­er­a­tor irons “bro­ken” places through a nap­kin.

Advice! Before “iron­ing” it is imper­a­tive to test whether this fab­ric can with­stand high tem­per­a­tures. Was the test suc­cess­ful? It’s time to get down to trou­bleshoot­ing.

The sec­ond method involves the treat­ment of the “affect­ed” area, slight­ly rub­bing it with fine sand­pa­per. Then, care­ful­ly, so as not to harm neigh­bor­ing areas, the creas­es are degreased with ace­tone or a sol­vent. Act­ing accord­ing to the instruc­tions giv­en on the pack­ag­ing of a leather repair prod­uct, called liq­uid leather, the defec­tive area is cov­ered with this com­po­si­tion, dried, treat­ed with a spe­cial cream and, at the end of the process, pol­ished with a nap­kin.

You can also remove dents with wax. On clean and dried shoes, cracks and creas­es are filled with wax, warm­ing it up. When it hard­ens, the excess can be eas­i­ly removed with a soft cloth. A cream is applied to the “cured” shoes and pol­ished dili­gent­ly.

How to iron faux leather shoes

The struc­ture of the leather sub­sti­tute is very dif­fer­ent from gen­uine leather, although they are sim­i­lar in appear­ance. There­fore, “pure leather” meth­ods will be inef­fec­tive for this mate­r­i­al. If there is no pro­hi­bi­tion sign on the use of iron­ing on the label of the prod­uct, then you can remove wrin­kles and wrin­kles with an iron, if it is equipped with a steam­er, or with a device spe­cial­ly designed for this.

Creas­es are espe­cial­ly vis­i­ble on white shoes.

We remove creases on nubuck shoes

On shoes made of nubuck or suede, creas­es can occur lit­er­al­ly in the first sea­son of wear­ing. How­ev­er, even such a com­plex mate­r­i­al can be elim­i­nat­ed such defects. For this you need to pre­pare:

• a spe­cial brush with a rub­ber “bris­tle” for clean­ing suede sur­faces;
• a damp cloth or piece of cloth;
• hairdry­er.

Shoes are cleaned from dust and dirt. The paper filler is tight­ly put into the shoes — in such a vol­ume that their top is smoothed out. Nubuck (suede) is care­ful­ly smoothed with a brush. A flap of moist­ened tis­sue is placed over the prob­lem area. Turn­ing on the hair dry­er, send a stream of hot air to the hall. After remov­ing the nap­kin, dry the resus­ci­tat­ed shoes in a nat­ur­al way.

On a note! A spe­cial brush can be replaced with fine-grained sand­pa­per, but it must be used with extreme care so as not to harm the pile.

How to prevent the formation of creases

It is bet­ter to pro­vide shoes with decent care than to try to remove dents and wrin­kles in the future. What to do?

• Shoes must fit. In too wide boots or shoes, creas­es form in the widest place. If the shoes, on the con­trary, are nar­row, the skin on it will begin to break “due to” exces­sive ten­sion.
• Shoes should be worn accord­ing to the sea­son.
• For shoe care, the choice of creams and impreg­na­tions should cor­re­spond to the qual­i­ty and col­or of the mate­r­i­al. Smooth, patent leather, nubuck, suede require the use of spe­cial prod­ucts.
• Shoes should be unbut­toned, locks and fas­ten­ers. If nec­es­sary, use the horn, and do not force your foot into the shoes.
• When tak­ing off your shoes, you should not tram­ple the heel or step on it with your heel to make it eas­i­er to take off your shoes.
• Mod­el shoe spec­i­mens, if the mate­ri­als of their man­u­fac­ture are del­i­cate, are intend­ed to be worn pure­ly in an apart­ment / office; When you go out­side, you have to change your shoes.
• The best option is to have sev­er­al pairs of shoes for the sea­son so that you can wear them alter­nate­ly. Shoes and boots should rest. After the “labor” day and until the next, they do not have time to dry out and regain their orig­i­nal cor­rect shape.
• To wash off dirt from shoes, do not do it under run­ning water. It is enough to wash the sole and upper with a sponge. When car­ing for shoes made from nat­ur­al mate­ri­als — suede, leather, nubuck, it is nec­es­sary to con­tact water as lit­tle as pos­si­ble.
• For clean­ing shoes made of real leather, it is con­traindi­cat­ed to use soap and clean­ing com­pounds with an aggres­sive “char­ac­ter”.
• Shoes should be cleaned every time after return­ing from the street.
• Wax, like cream, is applied exclu­sive­ly to dry and clean shoes.
• Wet shoes are dried in a well-ven­ti­lat­ed area.
• Wet and damp shoes should not be worn, because the skin in this form tends to stretch and deform.
• In win­ter and in the rainy sea­son, it is rec­om­mend­ed to use spe­cial water­proof com­pounds for treat­ing the skin.
• If the insoles get wet, they should be dried sep­a­rate­ly so that the skin does not become damp.
• As for arti­fi­cial leather, there are no fibers in it that can straight­en out if they are soft­ened with oils and wax. There­fore, such footwear should be pro­vid­ed with sys­tem­at­ic and thor­ough care using the means intend­ed for this.

If the shoes are worn and stored incor­rect­ly, the creas­es quick­ly become deep­er, and then it is almost impos­si­ble to remove them. Leatherette shoes are rec­om­mend­ed to be stored with lin­ers, filler or blocks to pre­vent even min­i­mal defor­ma­tion. How­ev­er, this applies to all types of shoes.

Creas­es on any type of shoes, espe­cial­ly while they are shal­low, can be com­plete­ly elim­i­nat­ed with your own hands. If the process has gone “deep” and you can no longer cope with dents and folds at home, then there is only one way out — a shoe­mak­er’s shop.