The lifetime and the good looks of your Dinkelacker shoes depend not only on the way they are made and the last form, but also on how they are taken care of and maintained. Here we present you with a couple of valuable tips, so that you will be able to enjoy your new shoes for as long as possible.
Place suitable shoe trees in your shoes after taking them off. High-quality red cedarwood is ideal, because it contains etheric oils and thus has an antibacterial and antifungus effect. The ideal shoetree has a properly formed heel, so that the rear cap of the shoe does not become deformed.
Use a shoetree in your shoes and let them dry off for one to two days.
In order to protect the inner leather at the heel and the rear flap, you should always use a suitable shoehorn, such as our original Abbeyhorn.
After wearing the shoe, use a brush to rid it of dust; if necessary, a moist cloth may be used.
The upper leather should be treated with shoe polish at regular intervals, ideally once a week. You can find detailed care instructions at our Internet site www.menshoes.de.
The pit-tanned leather soles of your Dinkelacker shoes do not need any special substances to maintain them. We advise against using sole leather oils, waxes, and other oils. The leather soles are highly water-resistant and can be worn in the rain with no problem.
The sole edge should be treated with polish just as the rest of the shoe, so just apply polish here the next time you polish your shoes. For black soles, please use black polish, for naturally coloured sole edges use Burgol brown, strongly colouring. If the black sole edge should show scrape marks resulting from mechanical stress, we recommend using black sole edge colour. Our secret tip: you can use a black, waterproof felt pen!
Before wearing your shoes, check their general appearance. If the heels are worn down, have them repaired as soon as possible.
Many people look at your shoes first when they become acquainted with you. Shoes say a great deal about their wearers, so you should always ensure that yours are polished to perfection.
Burgol Shoe Polish has been produced completely by hand in a small Swiss factory since 1921.
The Carnauba wax shoe paste owes its first-class characteristics for shoe care to its formula, which has remained unchanged for decades. The natural balsam oil of turpentine, which is free of resins, has a gentle cleansing effect with the best possible consistence. The protective impregnation and the durable polish result from the secret mixture of various natural waxes in the hard wax paste.
The result of shoe care with Burgol hard wax paste is incomparably good. Burgol palm wax shoe paste is equally suitable for calves' leather and cordovan leather.
Basic care with Burgol brown. To get an antique appearance you may use a darker tone in the mixture with Burgol brown e.g. Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol medium brown. To get an antique appearance you may use a darker tone in the mixture with Burgol medium brown e.g. black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol dark brown. To get an antique appearance you may use a darker tone in the mixture with Burgol dark brown brown e.g. Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol bordeaux in the mixture with Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol black Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol dark brown in the mixture with Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol dark brown in the mixture with Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
Basic care with Burgol middle brown. To get an antique appearance you may use a darker tone in the mixture with Burgol middle brown e.g. Burgol black. Clean and remove polish leftovers with Burgol colorless.
A waxed Nubuk leather with antique effect. Basic care with Burgol brown. After creaming with Burgol brown the colour of the leather becomes a nuance darker. It will loose the shine by wearing them.
A waxed Nubuk leather with antique effect. Basic care with Burgol deep brown. After creaming with Burgol deep brown the colour of the leather becomes a nuance darker. It will loose the shine by wearing them.
Water resistant. Basic care with Burgol middle brown. We recommend the use of an impregnate spray.
Water resistant. Basic care with Burgol black. We recommend the use of an impregnate spray.
Original Shell Cordovan leather from the famous Horween Tannery in Chicago is one of the most exclusive luxury goods on the leather market. Shell Cordovan, which has its name from the shell-shaped leather pieces, can be made only from the flanks of horses, owing to its special structure and strength. A shoe made of cordovan leather will wear for a lifetime. Leather connoisseurs can recognise the leather by its intensely deep colouring, usually in classic oxblood or black.
Cordovan leather has a high fat content, so that, at the start, one usually needs nothing more than to brush the dust off, and rub the polish a little.
But the intensive oil treatment of the leather during the production of cordovan can lead sometimes to the leather showing whitish spots on the upper. This looks a little like mould, but consists only of exuded fats. This can occur to a greater or lesser degree and differs from shoe to shoe. This so-called "blooming" can be removed easily by polishing with a brush or rubbing with a moist cloth. (If the blooming is somewhat stronger in character, lightly warm the leather first with a hair-dryer.)
Cordovan is processed with the flesh side on the outside, and does not have a sealed surface for this reason. The actual surface is a layer of wax. This has the advantage that scratches and rough places can be polished away with no difficulty.
If raindrops come into contact with the surface at the beginning, the fibres swell and the places affected can show little bumps. These "water bumps" can be polished away, just as can scratches and rough places.
In contrast to calf leather, cordovan does not develop wrinkles and small folds; rather, it develops large corrugations in the area of the ball of the foot, where movement is greatest. This corrugated formation cannot be avoided. Even bespoke shoes show this. This formation of corrugation is quite typical of cordovan leather.
Before you begin with the maintenance of your cordovan leather shoes by polishing the scratches away, please put a good quality shoe tree - if possible, the suitable Heinrich Dinkelacker cedarwood shoetree with the specially formed heel - in the shoe to provide good counter-pressure.
Now apply a little shoe polish to the damaged place (we recommend Burgol black for black cordovan, and Burgol Bordeaux or dark brown for oxblood) and rub it with a hard, but not scratchy, object, e.g. the back of a spoon, using a circular motion and working from the centre of the spot outward, applying some pressure all the time, until the damaged place is no longer visible as such. Keep friction low by applying a little polish from time to time while doing this. Often the place in question will be a little shinier than the immediate environs of the upper. To bring this into line, work around the original area onto the upper a little.
