The majority of shoes available at Butyk.co.uk are made of natural leather. We very rearly receive complaints, thus most of you must be familiar with the proper maintenance. However, we'd like to remind some basic rules to be kept in mind while carring for your shoes.

The majority of complaints concerns the destroyed upper of shoes. Every case is being investigated by an external expert. Butyk.co.uk doesn't employ any experts and has no influence on their decisions. In case of mechanical damage we are helpless. Yet, the majority of complaints concerns discolourations or deformations caused by improper maintenance, so one can definitely prevent them.

Leather exposed to degrading influence of pollution undergoes irreversible changes. We realise that you probably know it, yet we would like to remind you that before putting your shoes in a box for next season, you should clean them and dry them up. That's the only way to keep them in proper shape for the next season.

We gathered few essential tips on how to care for shoes, in order for them to look attractive for a long time. We hope that they will help you enjoy your shoes for a long, long time.

Useful tips

1. We advice to untie laced up shoes before you put them on and take them off. The same relates to zipped shoes.

2. Laced up shoes are best to be worn fastened, as it prevents the abrasion or slipping of the heel counter.

3. Heeltaps need to be changed from time to time

Every natural fabric may loose uniformity of it's colour or structure, due to leather properties.

Cleaning your shoes

Inproper maintenance may cause the shoe upper to peel. Thus it's important to clean and care for your shoes on regular basis. Every type of leather requires different maintenance.

Buckskin - In case of dirtying, one should wipe shoes with wet cloth and leave them for drying in room temperature (remember not to put them near the radiator). Such leather also needs cleaners which match the shoe colour.

velour and nubuck one should clean them only with special shoebrush using impregnation in spray. When buying such an impregnation one should take notice if it's meant for particular kind of leather. It's natural that nubuck and suede upper tend to loose colour, thus one should dry them up only in shaded places.

synthetic fabric and patent leather -should be wiped with wet cloth. after drying up, one should use suitable creams. The main difference between the patent leather and natural leather is that the first is less resistant to repeated creasing.

canvas - shoes made of canvas require special care. One cleans them with a sponge moisted with warm water with delicate washing detergents (for hand wash)

Natural leather tends to get wet in case of rain. Soaked shoes need to be dried up in room temperature (away from radiators).

We do care for your satisfaction. We believe that if you comply to those few rules you would enjoy your shoes longer.