How do you get your Klogs clean?

Noney · Sep 13, 2003

I threw my birk's iin the washer with lots of bleach. It worked. Of course I then freaked out about the washer and ran in 5 times with bleach detergent and some old towels. My husband used to take dirty shoes to the carwash and power spray them.

Noney

Agnus · Sep 13, 2003

I don't know if you have the ones that can be thrown in the washer or not. I have leather Bergenstocks.

First I polish (i use a cream polish but was works too) them before I ever wear them the first time. This helps anthing that gets on the to wash off easier.

Then EVERY Day I clean with a damp cloth and soap (saddle soap is ideal but I use plain old bar soap most of the time.

For those nasty black scuff marks I use a clear "Scuff and Stain Remover" Kiwi put this out and so does Totes. both call it the same thing.

I have been acused of having new shoes that were really 2 years old.

I renew the polish regularly. Depending on how much cleaning I had to do. If I cleaned a lot of heavy stuff I polish. If just light cleaning I many spot polish or not at all.

I rotate shoe daily.

This sounds like a lot of work but it is really a lot more work to try to clean shoes like you describe.

It takes only about 60 seconds or less a day. No more than 3 minutes if I do a full polish as well.

After polishing buff out the polish. For white shoes I use a white panty hose (or stocking) to polish. You can still find these in some uniform shops. Size doesn't matter since you are using them as polishing cloths.

I try to remember not to wear them out side. I live in a dusty muddy area and this does nothing good for shoes. Also, when I have forgotten and worn them to my car I inveriable end up with somekind of black stuff on them from the parking garage.

Agnus · Sep 13, 2003

The good thing is today white leather dye is much better than it was a few years ago when it used to come off and show raw gray leather.

As far as the insides go. I do what you probable alread do. Wear scrouplously clean socks over clean feet and only wear bleached white socks. If you have a problem even after doing that with the insides of your shoes then you have something I fortunately do not and I don't know what to suggest. Except rotate daily and air with good circulation of air without extreems in temperature.

Noney · Sep 13, 2003

The birkenstocks I washed were leather Boston Clogs. They are almost 2 years old and had stretched so much I figured it didn't really matter. I was surprised to find out they survived the washer, and when I layed them out in the sun they shrunk. And now they fit again!

Most of the time when I clean my work shoes I do it during down time. I wear gloves and clean them with disenfectant.

Noney

Ariko · Sep 17, 2003

I tried many shoes, but found the Birks too hard, and most of the clogs too high. I'm over 6' and don't need the height. I did find some very nice shoes called Finn Comfort. They cost $200 and I love them, and get some comment about once a week on how comfortable they look.