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Here are a pair of vintage Swiss Bally shoes in solid condition that I found for $5.00. They had heavy coats of dark brown shoe polish on them. So I took some Dye Prep shoe cleaner and then Acetone to wipe off the gunk. Then a coat of leather cleaner, a coat of leather conditioner to restore moisture to the leather and then 3 coats of a light brown shoe polish to restore the luster. Since they had heavy coats of dark brown shoe polish I did not want to use the Acetone very heavily as it would have removed the shoe dye as well, so I went for a distressed leather look on them. I think they turned out rather well for an experiment.














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