Shoe polish: thoughts, fun facts, questions

[CollinMacD]

To this day, every one of my leather shoes are spit polished the old fashion military way, as I was in the US Coast Guard Honor Guard, and you had to do this daily. There is nothing like a clean pair of highly polished shoes. I make sure each pair is put back with shoe trees, I really do take care of my shoes. I was brought up to do so, because shoes were expensive, and we only got about two pair a year, one for beginning of school year, and one pair for Easter Sunday. Sneakers for summer.

[The Q]

Of course being ex RAF I have spent many hours polishing shoes and Boots DMS. I believe the latest military boots are deliberately matt, so how they look after them I don't know.

My Shoes are of course bulled, however these steel toe capped boots I use for work and my riggers boots I use for gardening / boat building are not.

At work at least once a day I'm crawling on the floor, and getting fibreglass resin or digging in the garden with the other boots, is just not worth the time polishing. They just get enough to keep them waterproof...

I just use the old spit and polish with Cherry Blossom polish..