There was a time when shoes were intended exclusively for playing sports or performing certain jobs that required comfort to spend hours on your feet. Currently, they are one of the favorite footwear, which cannot be missing in any wardrobe and with which to solve the wardrobe for any occasion, even in a formal key if we know how to combine them.
Sports shoes are comfortable, versatile and our best allies to survive a day of non-stop and reach everything. But since we use them so much, they suffer the consequences of trotting. One of them is that the shoes end up smelling bad or also losing their pristine whiteness. For both problems there are the most effective homemade solutions.
And there is also a trick that is as simple as it is effective to eliminate wrinkles that appear in shoes. These appear above all in the toecap, as they give of themselves due to the use and flexion of our foot. When sneakers wrinkle, they take on an aged and worn appearance, but there is a remedy to restore their smoothness and make them look like new.
Paula Seiton is a professional organizer and is behind the Instagram account @paula.unsitioparacadacosa, with more than 300,000 followers who don’t miss her tricks on order, cleaning and decoration. Among them, the video that she has shared showing how to remove wrinkles from shoes simply and quickly.
To straighten your shoes you will only need newspaper, a clean and wet cloth – a towel also works – and a clothes iron, either steam or traditional. The first step is to fill the shoes with plenty of balled up newspaper, so that they stay firm. Next, you have to cover them with the wet cloth. Finally, the shoes are ironed on top of the cloth, being careful not to burn yourself. And after this procedure, the shoes are as smooth as when we iron the clothes.
To avoid damaging the shoes, it is convenient to apply the heat of the iron in short intervals of time. Among these, we must check if the wrinkles have already disappeared or if we must continue insisting. In the latter case, it must also be done for periods of about ten seconds, making sure that we are not damaging the shoe material in between. In addition, you have to wait for the shoe to be completely cold to remove the padding, as well as to be able to put them on.
