How To Maintain Designer Shoes

Designer Shoe Cleaning Tips: 

1. Don't wear them everyday!! Save your expensive shoes for special occasions!

2. Suede Material: Buy a waterproof spray, suede cleaning block, eraser on the back of a number 2 pencil and a suede brush.

3. Satin shoes can be cleaned with household stain guard. 

4. Put tissue paper in the shoe so the shape is kept up. Brush any fur with a small tooth comb so the hairs fall the same way.

5. Wipe down sole after each use with a damp paper towel.

6. If the lining or stitch broke ship it back to the store for maintenance.  Most luxury stores will make you pay shipping. 

7. If you get caught out in the pouring rain take your shoes off, put them in your dry purse and go barefoot in the rain. It's fun and will save you from ruining leather, suede and hardware.  

8. Air them out after use, but avoid sunny areas and heaters.  Storing your shoes in plastic boxes airs them out more controllably then keeping shoes in dustbags.

9. Use a sharpee to color in any scratches and shoe polish to shine. Toothbrushes can help you when it comes to getting the grime out of nooks and crannies.

Do your Christian Louboutin's look like this?

How to keep those red soles:

1. Cheap alternative: 3 coats of clear thick nail polish or top coat

2. Go to a shoe resole repairman/cobbler to get a sole-gloss glaze

3. Get a Vibram sole to put on the bottom of your shoe 

How to walk easier in high heels:

1. BOTOX! Surprisingly most ballroom dancers and celebrities get 10-20 units of 

botox in each foot so the pain of their heels goes unnoticed. 

2. Sleep in your heels to break them in two nights before you have to wear 

them.

3. Women are now going to the extremes of getting pinky toe liposuction or 

bunion correction surgery to fit in narrow italian designer labels like Ferragamo, 

Prada and Valentino

4. Foot/Toe acupuncture therapy to relieve the stress and pressure points in the 

feet

5. If you're terrible at walking in high shoes, go for a platformed, thick chunky 

heel/wedge, ankle straps so your balance is centered and secure. If the pain is 

what scares you, try out thin gel pads for the lining.

6. Walk in a short "heel, toe, heel toe" repetition.. Dont drag your feet or neglect to pick 

them up during your stride. Also take small steps and keep liquid bandaids, 

chaffing powder/creme or bandaids in your purse!