How To Stretch Shoes That Squeeze And Rub - Made Of Natural, Artificial Leather And Other Materials, Ways To Spread At Home

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

If your favorite shoes are tight - do not despair, they can be stretched

Let's start with the fact that shoes are vital for us. Thank God, the days are gone when one pair of boots per family was considered quite normal. In peasant families, of course. More wealthy citizens sewed shoes to order, for each new dress or suit. Tsarina Elizaveta Petrovna, for example, had over a thousand shoes. Shoes then sewed exactly on the leg, sat perfectly and did not cause trouble for the owner.

However, a lot has changed since then. Stores of ready-made shoes with serial models and standard sizes appeared. But there were no standard people, and still are not. Therefore, now it is not an easy task to buy comfortable shoes, beautiful and perfectly fitting in size. You have to sacrifice something. Most often, convenience and comfort are placed on the altar of beauty and fashion. Buy "chic" shoes, even if they press or rub, nothing, we will tolerate, and in which case we will glue the plaster. There is a lot of plaster in the country, and good shoes are worth their weight in gold.

In fact, almost any shoe, with rare exceptions, can be carried. You just need to know the material from which they are made and how to stretch it. At the same time, the style, purpose, presence or absence of a heel does not in any way affect the choice of a way to increase shoes.

The first thing to come to terms with is the fact that it is impossible to increase shoes indefinitely. The maximum that can be achieved without damage or deformation is to stretch one size. Consider this when buying a new pair. It is new, because well-worn shoes should not be stretched. The material from which it is made has become coarse and will not give in well to stretching, while the seams, on the contrary, are frayed and easily torn at the first opportunity. If the shoes are poorly worn out, it is quite possible to fight.

Content

• 1 Stretching genuine leather shoes

  • 1.1 Freezer to help

    1.1.1 Video about the package and ice method

  • 1.2 How to properly expand suede shoes, boots or boots
• 2 How to make tight faux leather models wider
• 3 Stretching textile shoes

• 4 Quick life hack - we wear out shoes in 5 minutes

  4.1 Video about the express method of stretching shoes

• 5 Stretching rubber shoes
• 6 Controversial methods of pulling shoes
• 7 Videos about different ways

Stretching genuine leather shoes

You can carry leather shoes, but sometimes it is quite difficult. Problems arise with leather goods of large animals, for example, a bull. Simple socks may not be enough here. Let's try to do something else.

1. To increase the fullness of the shoe, use an old towel. It should be soaked in hot enough water, squeezed well and wrapped around a shoe or shoe that needs augmentation. The skin is hydrated and softer. After that, take out the towel, put on still warm boots on your feet and walk around the house in them. After a while, you will feel that they have become more spacious.

   

   Wrap the shoes in a damp towel and wait until dry

2. Vodka, alcohol, cologne can not only improve mood, but also serve well in solving the problem of increasing the size of shoes. With one of these life-giving drinks, you need to wipe the inside of a tight boot, especially narrow places, then put it on your leg in a thick sock and walk around the apartment. In just a few hours, tight shoes have every chance of becoming comfortable and fitting shoes. This same method is usually recommended for stretching natural nubuck shoes.

   

   Moisten a boot with an alcohol-based liquid, put on and carry

3. One of the oldest and most tried-and-true ways to stretch leather shoes is by wearing wet-toed shoes. Do this at home until the sock is completely dry.

   

   If you put on shoes with wet toes, they spread

Freezer to help

You can stretch shoes with ice

We insert a dense plastic bag into the boot, or preferably two, fill it with water so that it is evenly distributed inside. We are waiting for the water to turn into ice, as a result of which it expands itself and at the same time stretches the shoes from the inside. We take out this whole structure from the freezer, do not remove the ice immediately, but leave it for 15 minutes to defrost at room temperature along with the shoes.

Video about the method with a bag and ice

Patent leather shoes can be stretched in the same way as matte leather shoes, just take into account a few nuances. First, varnished leather becomes tougher and therefore less elastic. For this reason, patent leather shoes can be stretched no more than half a size. Secondly, such a coating can be damaged from aggressive external influences, so all wiping is done exclusively from the inside. Despite the positive feedback on stretching patent leather shoes using the "ice" method, there is information that the varnish can react badly to a sharp rise and fall in temperatures. Hence the conclusion: it is better not to push varnished shoes into the freezer and not to dry them with a hairdryer, out of harm's way. It is preferable to use special creams or aerosols, apply them on the inside of the boot,put on a sock and walk around the house for a couple of hours. When buying, pay attention to the marking "for patent leather shoes". If it does not help, take it to the shoe shop, there they will stretch your shoes on the blocks with feeling, really, arrangement.

Lacquer shoes are better to just spread

If you rub hard backs, you need to knead them with your hands or lightly tap them with a hammer. The hammer version is only allowed for shoes made of tough thick leather or nubuck.

How to properly expand suede shoes, boots or boots

Care must be taken when stretching suede shoes

First, let's figure out what suede is. Suede is leather that has undergone a special treatment - suede, and after that has become soft and velvety. It is also thin, elastic, and, mind you, waterproof.

1. The least traumatic way to stretch suede shoes is to wear them at home. They just put on and went, without any means or additives. As already mentioned, suede is a flexible material and will stretch sooner or later, the question is, are you able to wait as long as it takes.

   

   We wear out suede shoes at home

2. Still, we buy shoes in order to wear them here and now, so we will try to speed up the process of wearing them. The first thing you can do for this is to moisten the inside of the shoes, then put on wet socks, and then the shoes. This will speed up the process of stretching the shoe somewhat, but not radically. A greater effect can be achieved if beer is used instead of water for humidification.

   

   Moisten the shoes from the inside with water or beer

3. The modern way of stretching suede shoes is to use the achievements of civilization, namely aerosols and special pads. Aerosols are sold in shoe stores, you just need to pay attention to the marking "for suede products" when buying. The shoe is a wooden or plastic sliding structure, which is able to become wider and longer within the required limits, and also allows you to stretch separately the problematic section of the boot. Such pads are used in shoemakers, but if desired, one of them can be purchased for personal use.

   

   It is better to entrust the stretching of shoes with a last to professionals.

How to make tight faux leather models wider

Leatherette shoes can be stretched, but with great care

To the question: "How to stretch leatherette shoes"? There can be only one answer: "Gently!"

Artificial leather, unlike natural, stretches reluctantly and strives to crack at any time. To prevent this from happening, use gentle methods of increasing the fullness of the shoes.

1. Spread Vaseline on the inside of the shoes and leave for two to three hours. Then remove excess Vaseline with a cloth, put on and wear for half an hour - an hour. If the desired effect is not achieved, repeat the procedure.

2. To wet the newspaper (if someday paper newspapers are replaced by electronic ones, the housewives will declare a sit-down strike, because half of household chores will stop due to the lack of the main tool of labor - the old newspaper), and stuff a shoe or shoes with them so that it is completely filled, expanded but not deformed. Be patient and wait for the newspapers to dry, then remove and discard.

   

   Stuff boots tightly with damp newspapers

3. Pour wheat grain or buckwheat directly into the boot, add water and leave overnight. In the morning, clean the shoes from the swollen grain, put on and wear for an hour.

Stretching textile shoes

Fabric shoes can be stretched with damp paper

Believe it or not, sneakers and canvas shoes can also be narrow and uncomfortable when walking. To provide yourself with the comfort for which this kind of shoe was created, it needs to be stretched.

This can be done with boiling water. Pour it inside the sneaker, then pour it out. Wear a sneaker on a sock and walk around the house. Just before putting the kettle on the fire, check if the fabric sheds from hot water (you can stretch leather shoes in the same way).

If the fabric may shed, simply stuff torn white paper or newspaper inside, fill with water and wait to dry. When this happens, throw away the paper, put your shoes on, and walk around the house for a couple of hours.

Quick life hack - we wear out shoes in 5 minutes

Stretching shoes in 5 minutes

We put on thick socks and, armed with a hairdryer, for 30 seconds we heat the narrowest places, that is, those areas in which it presses. But that's not all. Simultaneously with heating, you need to stretch and arch the foot. We finished. We take off our socks, put shoes on our bare feet, and listen to our feelings. If the shoe is not too small, but just has to sit on the leg, everything will work out.

Video about the express method of stretching shoes

Stretching rubber shoes

It is unlikely that rubber shoes can be stretched, but PVC shoes can be stretched

Question: "How to stretch rubber shoes"?

Answer: "Nothing."

If it really is made of rubber.

But in our age of high technologies, not all that glitters is gold, and not everything is rubber that seems to be such. It is quite possible that it is PVC. In appearance it is no different, but in properties - yes, as they say in Odessa. To establish the truth and reveal what the boots are made of, you need to burn them with a hot iron. Only just a little bit and on an inconspicuous area. If the surface has melted - in front of you is PVC, polyvinyl chloride, in scientific terms. We will not delve into the chemical properties of this material, we will only say that it is stretched.

Pour boiling water into the boot and wait until it cools down a little, that is, about 5 minutes. During this time we manage to put on several pairs of socks and fill the basin with cold water. We pour the water out of the boot and immediately put it on the leg with several layers of socks, after which we place it in a basin with cold water. Softened with hot water, PVC material will harden and retain its new shape.

Controversial methods of pulling shoes

There are ways to stretch your shoes that need to be approached with care

There are several more descriptions of well-known but controversial ways to stretch shoes.

First, tapping with a hammer. The bottom line is that with a hammer, hard problem areas are broken, mainly backdrops. The method is common, but for expensive shoes made of delicate materials (suede, textiles, artificial leather) it is not suitable, since it can simply ruin them. Soft skin should not be subjected to such a dangerous test either.

Secondly, the wearing out of shoes soaked in soapy water. Experience shows that shoes do wear out in this case, but it is not always possible to get rid of the soap stains that remain, and it is not always possible to keep the shape.

Video about different methods

It may happen that all attempts to stretch the shoe to the desired size were in vain. In this case, they can be returned to the store within 14 days, but provided that they have preserved their original appearance: the tags are in place, nothing is overwritten or broken, there are no traces of walking in them along the street. If the shoes look worn, they will not be accepted, because the reported size discrepancy is not enough to return the money paid.

Hence the conclusion: choose your shoes carefully, and stretch wisely, so that in case of something you leave yourself a path to retreat.