Hi. My name is Mike Summers from Jim The Shoe Doctor in Eugene, Oregon. And today we're
going to be talking about cleaning and protecting suede shoes. This shoe is almost a full suede
shoe. It's a little low in the nap for a full suede. So with a show like this, what you
want to do to begin with is to never wear a suede shoe before you put a protective on
it. So you always want to make sure that you're using a water and stain protector on any suede
before you wear it. It makes cleaning them afterwards so much easier. They won't stain
nearly as badly, they'll clean up much, much better. So after you've worn them and they
became soiled, what you want to do with a full suede is to use a fairly soft, in terms
of suede brushes, a fairly soft brush. This is a nylon brush and this brush does great
for full suedes. It gets in and picks up that nap. And with suedes you can pretty much,
you want to go in pretty much any direction because you want to try and pull all that
nap up and making sure that you actually get in there and clean it out. You can go with
a brass brush. This is a little stiffer brush. This gets into a little bit better, and for
lower suedes, this does a great job. With most of these suedes that are colored like
blacks, that sort of thing, browns, blues, they make a product called Suede Renew. Now
this is an actual dye. It's a light dye and it also has a water protectant built into
it also. But this you would actually, once you've got the shoe clean, you would take
and just spray the shoe and then once that has dried,
you would re-brush or you could leave it just like that. But for, that would be for a full
suede. This would be a great example of a shoe that you would never want to wear before
treatment. You would want to definitely treat this shoe before you ever wore it. Because
once this becomes stained, it's going to be a real problem to clean it. Now once a shoe
like this has been worn and worn and worn, and it glosses over and it almost becomes
a smooth leather, but it's actually, this is what's called a nubuck suede. You can move
that finish back and forth and change the appearance a little bit. So with one of these,
you actually want to use a suede block. This is a stain remover and these, you actually
rub pretty hard on these. And this actually wears the block out rather than destroying
the suede. For a super stubborn stain that would be in a suede, you can use a light grit
sandpaper. You want to avoid using it if at all possible. These work pretty good though.
They work pretty quick at this. And if you can't find the suede blocks, this is a good
alternative. It does a great job of just getting that gloss off there. And once you've de-glossed
it, you can take your suede brush and then just re-brush it. And once you've got the
entire shoe clean, you'd want to take and re-treat it with a stain protector. And every
time that you clean them you want to re-treat them. And that's how you would clean and protect
suede, whether it be a full suede or a nubuck or a brand new shoe.