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awoodby
42
Jun 7, 2016
I'm liking the purple boots, but what the heck do I polish them with? There's no saphir greasy leather Purple?
payodpanda
958
Jun 7, 2016
awoodbyThese are work boots, so they won't look bad beat up. :)
As to your question, you can use burgundy polish - Saphir sells it by "Bordeaux", which is no. 8 on their catalogue (just like the number of the color in Horween leathers). You can also use neutral cream, but if using neutral cream I'd personally say just use the Renovateur.
Also, Burgundy / no. 8 looks sick with black distressing, so there's that. It'll also go with the boot aesthetic imo. You can distress the leather a bit by using very sparse amounts of black cream polish or okay amounts of black wax polish.
You can also mix different polishes to get the perfect mix you want. So for instance you might want to apply only Bordeaux at one place, Bordeaux mixed with mahogany in another, Bordeaux + black near edges in larger areas and only black near edges in concentrated areas. I'd say play around until you find what works best for you. Polishes can always be removed. :)
awoodby
42
Jun 7, 2016
payodpandaI do like playing with polishes! Yes, I have a few pair of vibergs, I'm familiar with the boot aesthetic, just sometimes use some greasy leather in black on the black ones when I get a scrape that pulls the color out too much.
I really like your advice. Mixing polishes can be fun too, redid a female friend's jump combat boots to be about this color actually a few months back. Thanks for all the info!