Hi I'm Kirby Allison and we love to help the well-dressed take care of their
wardrobes. In today's video I'm going to show you the three ways to tell whether
or not your shoes need to be resoled. If you have any questions or comments
during this video please ask them in the comment section below. I try to get back
to as many comments and questions as possible. Proper care of your dress shoes
can dramatically extend their lifetime. With regular resoling and regular
polishing, you can extend the life of your shoes by decades ensuring that they
only get better with wear and become more personalized for you. In the hands
of an experienced craftsman, a resoling job can not only extend the life of the
shoe but also elevate the quality of the finish well-made dress shoes are made
with the intention to be resoled so that you can get years if not decades of
great wear out of a pair of shoes. Just like with your car, every dress shoe
ultimately needs the outsoles replaced whenever they've become worn. In this
video I'm gonna show you the three simple ways to tell whether or not your
shoes need to be resoled. With the resoling done by a qualified cobbler
like one from our Kirby Allison Resoling Repair Program, you can trust that your
shoes are being resoled with the finest materials and craftsmanship available
anywhere. These materials and craftsmanship will ensure that your
shoes last longer, look better, and feel better whenever you wear them. Today I
have a pair of black Allen Edmonds Fifth Avenue's that have come in for our
resoling program. There's three simple ways to tell whether or not a shoe needs
to be resoled. First and the most important is you turn your shoe upside
down and hold the toe and then run your finger over the center of the outsole
what you're looking for is any type of wrinkling or softness in the outsole
itself a proper outsole that has not outlived its lifetime should be firm
to the touch and not push in as you can see this shoe has a very soft outsole.
It's time to have them resoled. Second, any type of visible hole on the outsole
itself means that you've gone way beyond the lifetime of this outsole if you wear
your shoes too long with the hole you can actually do permanent damage to your
shoe if they get wet so if you have any visible holes and your outsole you need
to immediately send them in to a cobbler to be retracted third always inspect the
perimeter of the outsole to ensure that you haven't worn through the outsole and
into the welt if you see any type of welt stitching exposed that means that
you're wearing through the outsole into the welt and that these outsoles need
to be replaced immediately the problem if you wear through the outsole into the
welt is that if you wear too far through the weld the shoes either are unable to
be repaired or have to undergo a very extensive rewelting
in order to allow them to be resoled on the right shoe of these Allen Edmonds
Fifth Avenue's you can see that whenever I turn them over and run my thumb across
the outsole that we still have indentation and again this sponginess or
this softness means that you're reaching the inital lifetime of these out soles
now there's no visible holes which is good but you can see that at the toe
we're beginning to wear through the outsole and into the welt and you can
see that because the welt stitches have actually been broken on the outsole
these shoes need to be resoled every pair of shoes that goes through our Kirby
Allison shoe resoling and repair service receives much more than just new out
soles it's almost a full refurbishment or a
full recrafting of the shoe we're removing the outsole replacing the interior cork
filling with new cork filling resoling the shoe paying careful attention to
match as closely as possible those originals welt holes then putting new JR
Rendenbock combination heels and lastly every pair of shoes receives a new pair
of kirby allison wellington shoe laces and a full shoe shine at the end of the
process to ensure that you receive your shoes back looking and absolutely in
condition these allen edmonds if you take a look at the uppers are actually
an fantastic condition they just need to be resoled and if you don't pay attention
to the outsoles and replace those whenever they need to be replaced you
can actually destroy a perfectly fine pair of shoes with regular resoling and
especially polishing you can make a pair of such as these allen edmonds Fifth
Avenue's easily last decades if you're someone that is prone to wear through
the toes of your shoes into the weld you can actually outfit a pair of shoes
during our Kirby Allison shoe repair service with brass or steel toe plates
that help protect the tip of the shoes from being worn if you enjoyed this
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