How to Clean Vintage Shoes?

 While some may frown on wearing old shoes, quality vintage shoes make fashion lovers smile. However, before you put on your stylish shoes, you will have to clean and disinfect them. Considering the fragile nature of your vintage shoes, you should use caution when cleaning them.

According to professional cleaning services expert strong cleaners or water can dissolve threads or eat away at fabric. In order to protect your shoes you may use the following cleaning tips on how to take care of vintage shoes:

As a beginning you should prepare your cleaning tools. In this case you have to store out rubbing alcohol, cotton balls, bleach, water spray bottle, plastic shopping bags, insoles, stockings, cat litter and baking soda.

Outside Cleaning

Start dabbing rubbing alcohol on cotton balls.

Then wipe your shoes with it very carefully. Wipe from top to bottom. You should do this to kill all the bacteria.

Place the shoes in a sunny window for a few hours.

Inside Des-infection

Combine ¼ cup of bleach with a cup of water and pour the solution in a spray bottle.

Cover the outside of the shoes with plastic shopping bags.

Then spray the solution inside the shoes and place them in sunlight. Leave them to dry overnight.

Deodorizing

Deodorize smelly shoes by filling two stockings with a solution prepared of cat litter and odor absorbing baking soda.

Tie the stocking tops.

To finish just place them inside overnight.

Professional cleaning services London wish you good cleaning results!