Friday, July 31, 2009

After cleaning white shoes, stains re-appear?

Okay,


so i cleaned my white shoes,


they are mainly leather...and the tongue of the shoe is like a white cloth material.


the shoe also has brown suede stripes on the side.


after i finished washing them, they looked great!


they were spotless.





i used normal Tide cleaning detergent.








but the next day, after i let them air-dry,


the tongue of the shoe had this ugly brown color running through the middle of it...





what did i do wrong?

After cleaning white shoes, stains re-appear?
It sounds like dye from the suede sides bled and was absorbed by the cloth tongue. You might be able to soak the tongues in oxyclean to remove the stain. Since your shoes are a mix of leather, suede and cloth you should probably not soak them in water, but spot clean the cloth tongues, use a suede brush on the suede part and a leather cleaner on the leather part.
Reply:You washed out the die that colored the brown leather white.



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