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by
Claire Uren ©2009
Photos: Kerry ©2009 |
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You have spent
a fortune on a new pair of top boots, yet there are
no instructions on how to keep that new boot shine.
Better still would be how your boots could have a
mirror finish. A mirror finish that stays with use
and is easy to maintain.
With a heap of trial and error, I will tell you my
method below. It is just as well that leather can be
so forgiving because I have made a heap of mistakes
on the way to a super Shiny Boot. While this is
written for
those who have that super expensive pair of long top
boots in black or a pair of top boots that
have seen better days, my method works equally as
well for short boots and gaiters in brown if you can
get hold of a tin of Brown Parade Gloss. It is made.
You just need to look. I will give
you a tip at the end of this article if you simply
can not find it.
As far as I am concerned there is only one polish to
use and that is the good old Kiwi Parade Gloss. I
have tried every other super shine polishes that has
come on to the market and promise to be the best you
have tried - Collonil, Angelis, you name it I have
tried it but nothing beats the Parade Gloss.
In days of old, the
quality of leather could not be guaranteed. Often
you could look closely at the leather and see a
grainy finish. The pores very distinct and let's
face it. Pock marks don't shine. Old time boots were
a lot of work to smooth out and flatten the surface
and this was done by "boning". Boning was/is done by
taking the rib bone from a lamb, boiling off the
flesh and using that to work the polish in to the
leather. The boots these days are made of a much
better quality of leather and really don't need it.
The true secret to a mirror shine is to fill in the
pores in the leather with your polish without
building too thick a surface that will crack. |
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