SoleHeeled offers convenient and affordable Jimmy Choo shoe repairs by Australia’s best craftsmen, with free shipping to your door. This case study outlines how we recently repaired a customer’s Jimmy Choo shoes.
The shoes
The rose gold leather around these Jimmy Choo Lancer heels was extensively scuffed and discoloured, and the leather soles were visibly worn. When the customer reached out to us for a free diagnosis/quote, we offered to recolour / refinish the leather around the shoes and also install a pair of thin rubber sole protectors.
Colour restoration
We began by cleaning throughout the shoes, to get rid of the accumulated surface dirt / impurities and also remove the leather’s original finish — in preparation for the colour restoration work. We also used a combination or fine grip sandpaper and a specialist leather filler to smooth around the scuffs and gouges as much as possible. We then custom mixed a metallic colour based on the original and used that to recolour / refinish the leather throughout the shoes.
With the leather’s colour restored, we finished the leather with a specialist sealant designed to both restore the leather’s original shine and protect the pigment newly added to the leather’s surface.
Sole protector installation
While leather soles hold significant aesthetic appeal, especially for luxury shoes like these, they are not particularly durable and so they tend to wear down fairly quickly. They also tend to become slippery. This makes the enhanced longevity and traction offered by rubber sole protectors a popular choice among wearer’s of premium footwear.
We began by carefully re-contouring the leather’s surface, creating a slight recess into which we then were able to install a pair of sole protectors flush with the rest of the original leather soles. In this case, we used premium sole protectors with a smooth finish and nude colour that blended in well with the original soles.
Have a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes needing repair or restoration?
Our experienced craftsmen have been trusted by not only generations of Australians but also local and international brands (including NET-A-PORTER and Gucci) with the repair and restoration of luxury designer shoes since 1955. If you have a beloved pair of Jimmy Choo shoes in need of repair or restoration, ask us for a free diagnosis/quote by completing our online order form — where you can upload photos of the shoes and let us know exactly what you would like done to it, or let us advise you on what the shoes need based on the photos.
SoleHeeled serves all of Australia through its free 2-way shipping service:
Order online: Answer a few questions to get an instant quote and complete your order.
Send your shoes: Drop your shoes off at a local post office for free packaging and shipping to us.
We repair: A team of experienced craftsmen will carefully repair your shoes.
We return: We'll deliver your repaired shoes to you, wherever you are in Australia.
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