Alden shoe : what type of leather ?

bastoon · Post by **bastoon** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:15 am

It seems that there are two type of leather in shoe manufacturing: greasy leather and smooth leather. (cuir lisse et cuir gras in french)

And you have different polish according to the leather.

What about alden boots ? Have you ever heard about this subtility ?

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ob1al · Post by **ob1al** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:58 pm

According to the mainsite they are "Heavy, full grain brown waxhide".

There are loads of threads regarding the care of Aldens in the archives - Pecards, polish and so on. Personally, I used regular shoe polish and standard pecards on mine.

Al

bastoon · Post by **bastoon** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:51 am

Hi Ob,

when you say "regular", does it mean : " common polish like you can find in all supermarket ?"

a friend of mine who works on a deluxe shoes shop told me that using a wrong polish can make some spot on the leather...

Personnaly, i was planning to use a common chocolate polish on my Alden...

ob1al · Post by **ob1al** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:52 am

Yeah, just regular show polish - I use KIWI brown polish.

bastoon · Post by **bastoon** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:54 am

thanks