White felt boots

Valenki are traditional winter shoes of Russian people. Today, felt boots have become fashionable again. Modern felt boots are not only warm and comfortable, they look very beautiful. White felt boots look especially interesting. In order for white felt boots to delight with their beauty longer and retain their original appearance, you need to be able to properly care for and clean them.

Representatives of the fair half of humanity, as well as children, usually prefer to wear this type of winter footwear. Due to their positive properties in winter felt boots are warm, and they protect the feet from slush, as they absorb moisture.

Modern designers offer children's and women's models with a variety of decor, which makes it easy to choose a model for every taste. So, to decorate these winter shoes, embroidery or applique is used, some boots are decorated with rhinestones and stones, and there are models with fur. The color range of boots is no longer limited to boring gray and black colors. Today you can find shoes for winter walks of absolutely any color, but white and gray-white felt boots are at the peak of popularity today.

In order not to bother with cleaning, you should properly care for white felt boots and thereby prevent possible contamination. A few recommendations for the daily care of felted winter shoes:

• When you come home, you need to dry your shoes every time. However, boots should never be dried near a battery or heater, as this can lead to a change in the shape of the shoe. It is also unacceptable to use an electric shoe dryer, and even more so to dry boots near an open fire. For effective drying at room temperature, you can put a crumpled piece of paper or newspaper inside each felt boot, which will absorb excess moisture.

• Only cool water can be used to wash boots. From hot and even warm water, felt boots can shrink in size, besides, the appearance can be spoiled.

• Using a special moisture-proof impregnation for felt will help not to stain or wet your shoes.

• To store felt boots, you can use fabric bags, and you also need to put moth protection there.

If, nevertheless, it was not possible to avoid contamination, especially this can happen with children's shoes, then you need to properly clean the shoes so as not to spoil them. In addition, at the end of the season, you need to prepare white felt boots for long-term storage and wash them.

• First you need to dry your boots. Then, using a brush with a hard or rubber bristle, dry large lumps of dirt should be cleaned.

• Further, to clean white felt boots, you need to prepare a special solution in cold water. Carpet cleaner can be used as a cleaning component, which must then be removed with a vacuum cleaner. You can also use laundry detergent that contains bleach. This will not only get rid of the dirt, but it will also help lighten the coat a little.

• When using soap or powder, you need to rinse the boots well under running cold water.

• Some people wash white felt boots in the washing machine, but it is imperative to choose a delicate wash cycle. In addition, you need to use a cloth shoe cover for washing. When washing boots in a typewriter, it is advisable to add a softening conditioner. It is better to wring out the boots by hand to avoid possible deformation of the shoes.

• During drying, to maintain their shape, felt boots should be filled with newspaper rather tightly, but not stretched. They also use toilet paper or cat litter instead of newspaper. The contents of the felt boots need to be changed periodically as they get wet.

In addition to using household chemicals, you can use available tools to clean boots. Some people use semolina, tooth powder or starch to clean white felt boots. Fresh dirt can be cleaned with regular flour. Instead of a brush, you can also use sandpaper, but not very hard, or pumice.