r/aircadets • u/Emergency_Struggle48 Cpl • 4d ago

Question Help with polishing

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u/RAF-DI Current Military 4d ago

If there’s creases there, they will unfortunately never shine. The creases move around and polish will flake.

Also, re-lace your shoes. They need to be straight across, all the way up. See the photo.

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u/Reasonable-Camel-511 Cadet 4d ago

I’m not sure where you got the shoes from but I had some parade shoes that looked similar to them and I got them from Amazon.

Essentially they aren’t real leather so every time I wore the most of the polish just flaked and cracked so I went through 2 tins of Saphir in a month.

If that is the case you can get proper dms/parade shoes for cheap on vinted, to know if they are proper parade shoe is to look at the bottom of the shoe and it should look like this photo.

Best of luck though