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Shoe project update

Some of you may remember the John Varvatos shoes that I picked up at a thrift shop. I thought they had a natural patina, but once I got them home and cleaned them up I found that what I thought was natural was someone's botched attempt to patina the shoes. I left them sit for months before I got back to them last night. I wanted to see how one would look after a couple of applications of Safir dark brown shoe cream. Here is the result, I'm not convinced that they look good enough to wear. I suppose the next step is RenoMat to strip the finish and re-dyeing them, perhaps oxblood.

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