You can clean them with soap and water to keep them looking clean and to avoid tracking dirt into your home. As with all soles, it's best to keep them away from heat sources to avoid the material cracking. Just like our shoes' upper material, our leather soles are made of vegetable tanned leather. Leather soles are made by salting and tanning animal hides, which turns them into leather.
Leather can be vegetable-tanned or tanned using chemicals, like chromium. You can read more about the difference and their environmental impact in this blog post. After the leather is cleaned and dried, the soles can be cut by hand or laser to different shoe shapes and sizes. With a leather sole, you must take care not to step in puddles, as it wears out much faster when wet. However, when the sole leather is too dry, it also wears out more quickly.
You can address this by applying a mild polish to the sole once a month. This will keep it moistured. To finish off, you can also apply a leather-conditioning cream. Read more about leather care here. What sole fits you best depends on your personal needs and values. Natural rubber soles are great walking shoes as they are very flexible, shock-absorbent, and offer grip on slippery surfaces. Rubber soles have great water resisting properties. And leather soles are especially great for warmer weather, as they are very breathable and regulate temperatures well.
If you are concerned with the environment , we recommend going for a biodegradable natural rubber, leather sole, or a rubber sole made of upcycled materials. But whatever you prefer, choose high-quality products and give them the care they need to make them last and enjoy them for years to come.
Desert Boots are almost all equipped with a crepe sole of some kind, made of real latex or other rubbery material. This is one of the primary factors of any footwear, and a good crepe sole can give you the bounce and soft comfort you need from your desert boots. Traditionally, a crepe sole is made from colloidal latex, which is the material that is separated from rubber at a microscopic level.
This separation is similar to that of milk from butterfat. The latex is then mixed with a formic acid, causing it to coagulate. Some may be stiff upon purchase and need to be broken in, whilst some are ready to go from the get go. The type that we use within the Craven series is nice and soft. Therefore any product labelled as having a Crepe sole on our site, aside TPU, should provide greater cushioning and traction from first wear - in comparison to a standard sole unit - noticeably increasing in performance after a couple of wears.
There are three main reasons of using a Crepe sole. Looking good - hence it been a mainstay of the British footwear scene since the s - Crepe is renowned for comfort due to increased protection at the midfoot - as it supports the natural flexing foot movement - whilst the thousands are air bubbles contained within the materials act as a form of shock absorption protecting ligaments and tendons. Grippy - due to it's "Open Pores" - Crepe rubber is also a clean, sustainable material with the trees used in production of the natural latex able to be harvested for over 40 years, whilst after use the material is able to be biodegradable.
What is Crepe Rubber? Pros and Cons? Table of Contents. Enter your e-mail for an exclusive article to help you find the best deals on quality footwear. The following two tabs change content below. Bio Latest Posts. Karl Wasson. Karl is an IT product manager living in South East Asia who gets a kick out of durability and dependability. He believes form and function are not mutually exclusive.
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