Having danced for several months in non-salsa shoes I decided to treat myself to some gorgeous shoes. I know that that as the soles are suede they need brushing to maintain them but how often do you actually do this? I dance two - three times as a week for about three hours, would I brush them monthly, weekly, or after each session? I’m just a bit worried I might over brush them!
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Just had my Balo salsa shoes resoled. I needed a black pair of salsa shoes for competition and so had my first pair resoled by a cobbler (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cobbler). The guy put a thicker piece of suede than there was originally, but it worked out pretty well. Cost me about 1/3 the cost of the shoes themselves.
cold.salsero 6:04 pm on March 17, 2010Permalink |
I brush mine whenever I feel they’re so slippery that I can’t do shines or even my basic step properly anymore (I can’t spin yet slippery or not
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I’ve been brushing them with a heavy duty wire brush (the kind you remove rust with) for I’d say at least 3 months now, and the suede is still in good condition. I brush them on average around once or twice every time I go dancing (the shoes are a year old by the way), or sometimes I’ll go for days without having brushed them.
So anyway, that’s my own personal experience with them…I’m kind of surprised the suede lasted as long as it has considering how hard I brush them. I used $40 men’s black leather jazz shoes, so if you’re shoes are pretty salsera shoes that weren’t cheap, you might want to be more careful with your shoes than I was with mine