Quite often, after buying a pair of shoes or boots that you like, a woman at home discovers that the long-awaited new thing shakes and rubs while walking, and corns that appear after short-term wear, spoil the mood and cause pain. At such a moment, the woman has a question: what to do if the shoes are tight? Depending on the material, you can stretch the shoes in size, as well as in length and width, by contacting the shoemaker or distributing them at home using improvised means.
How to stretch leather shoes
Genuine leather and suede are distinguished by their natural elasticity and durability, therefore it is very easy to stretch new shoes sewn from these materials. To do this, at home, you can use the following methods:
1. You can increase the size of shoes with boiling water. Genuine leather is resistant to high temperatures, so to stretch shoes or boots, you can pour boiling water into the shoes without fear and immediately pour it. After this, you need to wait until the shoes have cooled a little, and put it on with your feet with a thin toe. Shoes can be removed when they are completely dry.
2. Use water to stretch the shoes. To do this, place a plastic bag inside the shoe and pour water into it, making sure that the liquid completely fills the voids. In this form, the shoes are left in the freezer for 8-10 hours. After the time has passed, the shoes are taken out of the freezer, left for some time, so that the ice melts, and then the packages are taken out.
3. You can stretch new leather shoes with alcohol-based products. It can be cologne, vodka, cognac or alcohol diluted with water in a ratio of 2: 1. The inside of the shoes should be wiped with a compound, then put the shoes on a warm toe and stay in them for several hours. After this procedure, the skin will become softer and more elastic.
4. Treat the inner surface of the shoe with a spray-stretcher for suede or genuine leather, purchased in a shoe store, and after drying walk around the room in it.
How to stretch faux leather shoes
Unlike natural material, artificial skin weakly stretches, therefore, with a strong impact on it, microcracks may appear. To stretch new shoes made of artificial leather without making intensive efforts, you can use the following methods:
1. Abundantly treat the inside of the shoe with Vaseline and leave it in this condition for 2-3 hours. After the tissue, you need to carefully remove the remnants of the ointment, put the shoes on a thin toe and stay in them for about half an hour.
2. Use newsprint. Newspaper sheets should be dampened and laid tightly in a boot or boot, making sure that the shoes do not deform. After the paper dries naturally, it must be carefully removed.
3. Stretch new shoes in the rise with the help of grain of wheat, barley or oats. To do this, pour grain into a boot or boot, then fill it with water and leave it to swell for 8-10 hours (you can overnight). Faux leather is stretched as the grain size increases. When time passes, the grain should be poured out and walk around the room in new shoes for an hour.
How to stretch new nubuck shoes
Before stretching boots or shoes made of nubuck, you should make sure that the material is natural. For stretching shoes made from natural nubuck, it is not recommended to use alcohol solutions, petroleum jelly and other fatty compounds, as they, when absorbed into the material, can leave spots on the outer surface. Therefore, if the shoe is tight, it can be stretched only in one of several ways:
1. Try to distribute shoes or shoes without using any means. To do this, wear them at home in your free time and walk around the room.
2. Use the common method of "old newspapers", for which wet (but not completely wet) sheets of paper are stuffed in shoes or boots and left to dry in this condition. The paper, expanding upon drying, will gently stretch the nubuck.
3. Use a special tool designed to stretch the nubuck, for which apply it on the inner surface of the shoe, put it on a warm toe and resemble in this form for 2 hours.
4. Take the shoes to a workshop where experienced shoe makers know how to stretch narrow nubuck shoes using wooden blocks.
