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Your Melbourne Cup Shoes will race on
Your Melbourne Cup Shoes will race on after the cup to Oaks Day and beyond by you giving them some care. Predicting Melbourne's weather for the local and the visitor alike, can be a bet in itself, as any day at this time of the year can have all four seasons. [More]
Spring into the holidays with bags safe for your luggage
Spring into the holidays with bags safe for your luggage. Make sure the zips are working properly. Check the handles are sewn on well and double check that the rivets are doing their job. There is nothing worse than just getting away on a holiday and having to find a shoe lace, a piece of rope and in the extreme a temporary airport bag for all your luggage. [More]
Keep safe
Keep safe with a spare key in a safe place in your home. Many local logo Shoe Repairers cut keys for your house and your car. The advice from your local logo Shoe Repairer is to cut the second and spare key from the original before the original begins to wear out. [More]
Ask your shoe repairer to help you
Ask your shoe repairer to help you with an answer to your tricky question. Many of our local logo Shoe Repairers tell stories of customers asking questions about repair and many other things which they simply cannot find an answer to elsewhere. [More]
For sentimental reasons polish your favourite
For sentimental reasons polish your favourite wallet well, when you receive it as a gift and throughout it’s life. Often it is the case that great consideration is given to the choice of present made from leather and no time is given to learning about the best ways to look after the special item. [More]
Buy good shoes, repair, and save
Buy good shoes, repair, and save your dollars to buy more good quality shoes! Increasingly customers are able to buy shoes at very cheap prices largely due to changes in tariffs and the reality of production costs in Australia. A range of shoes in style and quality can be bought at the ’factory outlet retailers.’ [More]
The art of leather care begins with knowing your leathers
The many and varied types of leather can be grouped according to the raw material form which it is prepared. [More]
A stitch in time saves nine – get ready for ANZAC
It’s a very old saying – but it is so very true – be it cloth or leather a stitch in time saves nine or more!
Often the request by the customer is:
• Just a stich here, please.
or
• Can you stitch it over and over to make it strong?
From one extreme to another really. [More]
Shoes can have a second life
Renovations. We renovate our homes and even our office. We renovate our gardens. Some renovate our clothes. In fact we probably all give something a second life. What chance do we give our shoes? [More]
The mornings are a little chilly - the summer sandals are almost away
Australia has its climate, but what is the weather like in the different regions – month to month, let alone within a day in some parts.
So how does this affect our footwear and our ways of looking after our shoes - our day shoes, sandals, boots, thongs, dress shoes, boat shoes and most importantly of all our best loved shoes? And what about your new shoes? [More]
If shoes were bought to fit the feet instead of the occasion
Your repairer can offer you more than shoe repair. There is just foot after foot after foot of knowledge and experience.
For example the importance of well fitting shoes. Many tales of sore feet, aching legs, bad backs and grumpiness - all related to poor fitting shoes – have been told to repairers. A poor fitting shoe can cause you to change your usual way of walking, restrict your mobility, upset your balance and reduce your good health. Foot and leg pain should not be part of your daily life. [More]
Transponder key replacement
Transponder key replacement can be a challenge. Sometimes it can be that by going to your shoe repairer locksmith it’s all done – cut and coded in a one stop shop. Sometimes it can be a two stage process – one to cut the key at the shoe repairer/key cutter and then off to the car dealer to have the key programmed into the vehicle. [More]
Just put a stitch in here please
Just put a stitch in here please is so often the cry of the customer to the repairer. “Just a stitch” requires consideration. The first consideration is the material from which the product is made. The customer often believes they have bought leather but when a good examination is made of the product maybe the product is leather on the outside by inside and at the parts which take a lot of wear and tear like the handle - no – not leather! And then of course one can have a discussion about the types of leather from which the leather good is made!
Moving on then from the main material, the next consideration is the construction of the product i.e. the repairer has to consider how to get into the product to just put a stitch in. [More]
Leather is easily damaged by heat so dry damp soles slowly
Most leather soles are ‘vegetable-tanned’ which means they are easily damaged by heat. The danger is especially great when the leather is wet. Heat damage may not be immediately obvious on the surface of the soles, but it will seriously affect their life. Wet shoes are the most easily damaged, but shoes worn under normal dry conditions can also contain enough moisture to suffer by heat damage.
Heat generates steam within the leather which attacks the leather fibres destroying their character. The leather is turned is turned into a soft tarry mass which becomes hard and brittle on cooling. Even drying at low temperatures may generate sensitivity to cracking. The damage is not always visible on the surface but arises in the following way. [More]
My leather pants, my leather coat, my leather vest
Leather clothes are made from garment leather – usually cow – sometimes with a suede finish sometimes with a full grain or smooth finish. The customer looks delicious and feels delicious in the garment but the care of the garment is always the question if not at the start always eventually because invariably something happens! Something like unpredictable rain, a spillage, perspiration, biro, grease or even a sticky label!
So the basic care of your leather garment requires you to waterproof the garment. There are different products available for different types of leathers but the principle of waterproofing is the same. [More]
Safe shoes are good shoes
Safe shoes are good shoes - the question being what makes a safe shoe? Its all about fit really. This is the most important feature to look for when choosing a safe shoe. A poor fit can cause you to change your usual ay of walking and even upset your balance.
Well tied laces are the best choice. If you find laces difficult, there are other options available from your quality repairer. Alternatively Velcro fastenings on shoes can be easily managed. [More]
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