If you read the article I wrote earlier this year about prepping your boots for the upcoming season, I have some new information to add.

As it turns out, shoe-gooing your boots while they are brand new is less effective than gooing them after you’ve used them for a while. I’m no chemist, but I assume it has something to do with the adhesion of the goo to the rough surface. With this new knowledge in the memory bank, I will be experimenting on the newest pair of boots by roughing up the leather a little before gooing this year. This should mimic the broken in boots without sealing in the dirt that inevitably covers your boots.

That is the theory anyway. We’ll have to wait to see the final results.

New vs. Old