Sign of the times: Shoe polish

[adoptedbyachicken]

Move to Canada?

I'm not having any problem with finding shoe polish here, and all the colours are available. Have you tried a tack store or as suggested a place that has leather boots, like cowboy boots or work boots.

The tack store will have all the leather care items for sure, and any place that sells cowboy boots will have all the polish colours. Work boot places will probably only have black polish but they should have the mink oil or other such product to go with it.

 

[KellyHM]

I've bought shoe polish at my local Walmart...

 

[Rosalind]

Well, what the hey. I must live in a shoe polish-deprived area or something. Maybe it's just central/western Mass.? It's a fairly nice suburb though, I really did expect that the shoe or leather goods stores on the main drag through town would have it, though. And Wally World, Target, CVS, Walgreens, all I got was a bunch of funny looks for my trouble.

 

[Reinbeau]

Rosalind, I think they are independent setups, people who sell the stuff in a store and rent space there for their products. Do you have Stop & Shops there? Or Shaw's? Try checking there.....

 

[Dar]

I have no problems finding shoe polish..but then again I am in Canada too...But a good place to look if i am new to the area is the army surplus store...they carry everything needed for boot/shoe care

 

[FrenchHen]

We polish our shoes in Irish dance.

For $125 US per pair of hard shoes, the kind that make the tap noise, and $50 for soft shoes, polish is our friend.

 

[Opa]

I've never had any problem finding shoe care products, even at Walmart. I polish shoes, use sole dressing on the edges of soles, polish, oil or wax my boots as appropriate and as a result have many pairs that are over 20 years old and still look good. What I have trouble finding is a shoe repair shop. Thirty years ago there was 3 in my town now there aren't any. Cobblers are fast becoming a dying profession.

 

[FrenchHen]

I think my area is lucky...we have a cobbler or two. There's also a couple of sewing machine stores! And a grocery where folks will *gasp* carry out your bags when you have two small kids with you!

 

[Reinbeau]

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So unfortunately true. I think there's still a cobbler a couple towns over, in Weymouth. My town is next door to Whitman, which is next door to Brockton - both huge shoe towns back in their days. As a matter of fact, the last shoe manufacturer in Brockton has just announced plans to close - Footjoy, manufacturers of golf shoes. Definitely the end of an era around here.

 

[rufus]

Real leather shoes are very hard to find now days. I have a real wide foot, and it seems all of the shoes are now made in China where all the feet must be small.

They will sell you shoes that say they are extra wide, but if you hold them up to the other shoes, they all have the same size welt. The Chinese just put the different size labels on the same shoes.

We used to go across the line and buy shoes in Mexico. They were good leather shoes. But the last time we went it was such a hassle coming and going and all the shoes we could find there were Chinese also. Is there not a place there are not dumping their junk?

Take good care of the leather shoes you have, because you won't be getting any more soon.

Rufus