Shoe polish: thoughts, fun facts, questions

[Baeau]

..Who here loves polishing their shoes? Not many, I'm guessing. ..

I'll never say, "I love polishing shoes", but I don't mind. I've worn boots all my life. Polishing them has become part of life, or something do. My wife has worn Danish/Swedish clogs forever. Her whites (back office medical assistant, when they had to wear proper med' office uniforms) had to be cared for, weekly. Never did find a good white polish.

I've used paste polish, but the best black was a liquid. One day, I had a customer in my shop, his toddler was crawling about. He picked up the little one, & saw my highly polished dress boots. He asked what branch of the service I had been in. He was ex-Navy, & could recognize ex-military people by the shine on the shoes. He was devastated, when I told him it was a liquid polish, by a major maker, for kids shoes.....referred to as Scuff Coat. And, that I had never done military service.

[Allan Thomson]

Polishing shoes can be theraputic but it can also be a chore. I guess a lot of people don't have the patience for it now. But I think it's rewarding when they come up nice.

Re the no brown brogues with a kilt I don't understand why some people feel this should be the case. Personally I think black brogue are the only option for more formally dressed time, but I think brown brogues usually go better with kilts when worn with Tweeds during day wear. Bearing in mind Carrans were brown (unless they were furry) I don't see why they should be considered an issue with the kilt. Needless to say I polish mine, especially after walking on the hills where the heather can scuff them.

Come to think of it when children get put in kiltsat an early age they tend to be in those red buckle sandle type shoes everone has when they are children (or is that now an extinct practice?).