Keep them dry

Published April 9, 2016

Excessively wet shoes should be stuffed with scrunched up newspaper overnight. This is a great way of drawing out moisture from shoes without damaging them. Using a hairdryer on leather shoes or placing them next to a heater will dry them out too much and may cause them to crack.

Published in Dawn, Young World, April 9th, 2015

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