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Remove black polish from brown shoes
May 08, 2011
27 Replies
If the shoes have been previously polished with a wax polish, the stain will probably wear off soon enough.
Well, having chopped down a pillar with one on sunday, I'll stick with the old and trusted
But ... the way this NG is going, it could well be a feather duster
And, let me guess, ... doesn't really make a very good job of cleaning shoes
Or How do you remove black shoe polish tat your mother in law used on your brown shoes.
I've successfully stripped finish from good quality leather boots using white spirit and very fine wire-wool. If you're gentle you should be able to remove the black without taking off a significant amount of the original brown. Or apply lots of clear shoe polish with a stiff brush then wipe it off with a cloth - this will take a few goes but definitely won't damage the original finish.
The OP has probably bought a new pair of shoes in the intervening 6+ years!
But it was effectively a new question that happened to be tagged onto an old post, so forgivable I think. :-)
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