How to store your winter boots

How to store your winter boots:

Once it is getting to the time of year when Spring is here, with all it's pretty flowers and the days are warmer and the sun is shinning and it is no longer snowing or hovering in the low temperatures in the late afternoon, it can be time to put your winter boots away and start displaying your lily white legs in your sandals.

No doubt by this point of the season you are ready to not be looking at your winter boots, however if you do the following top tips you will appreciate it when the leaves start falling off the trees at the end of summer. So before you start dancing about warmer weather and just sling your boots into the back of your wardrobe, please do the following so that your boots are in good condition for the start of next winter.

So top tips to keep your boots in top condition are:

• Is there any small repairs required? Have you worn your heels down, lost an eyelet or have a shoe lace that you have tied a knot in? Take your boots into your local shoe repairer and get these things done while you don't actually need to wear them. The boots I sell can all have the heel caps replaced and soles replaced so if you look after them they will last a good while.
• Once they are repaired check them out for stains, if you have a suede pair you can buy the cleaners to use on any marks. If they are normal leather wipe any dust and dirt off them. Let the boots dry and then moisturise them you can either use a beeswax if they are a more harder leather or a leather balm, please note don't use either of these products on suede or nubuck. This will keep the leather in top condition while they are stored away and stop them drying out over the warmer season. You can also freshen the inside of the boots up as well
• Now that the boots are all sparkly you can pop them away, if they are calf boots then invest in a pair of boot trees like this to stop them slouching and creasing while you are not wearing them and to keep them looking in top condition for next season.

You will now have a pair of well cared for happy boots.