Meltonian - is it "Kiwi Select"?

[Marc Chevalier]

When I was in the Army we actually were instructed to strip the "laquer" off of our class A shoes and put the polish on ourselves.

I remember that nonsense from my stint in the Navy. They also made us remove the protective lacquer from our brass belt buckles, so that we'd have to shine them constantly.


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[shoeshineboy]

While you chaps are having a discussion on this shoe polish, might I ask a quick, semi fftopic: question?

I haven't polished a shoe since I was about 10 years old, but I recently got a pair of leather heeled shoes. I foolishly drove in them a couple of times and some quite bad scuff marks have appeared on the backs and the heels. What can I do about this? Can they be polished out with normal polish? They are two tone black and white and I don't want to get black on the white so I am scared of even trying, but if I knew what to do I'm sure I could be careful.

I presume I would need to buy all the kit for polishing too, brushes and the like.

First of all are these patent leather ? If not I have repaired these with a little light coats of regular kiwi polish and then brush the dickens out of it....

Kiwi seems to have a bit more color than the polishes....

mark the shoeshine boy

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Aha!

Britishers in search of this fine product can make use of this source. Guess who just made an order?

You'll find a colour chart here.