Heres a weird one for you , has anybody else had their shoes disintegrate while wearing them of late? I had a pair of couple of year old Evans boots worn maybe a dozen times and put them on Saturday, went to take them off and most of the surface of the boots disintegrated in my hands , they weren't expensive by most peoples standards but to me they were, not repairable so into the bin they went . Now strangely enough a couple of weeks ago i bought a nice Joules handbag at the jumble and much the same happened to that . So it being cold and because im bored i looked it up on line and found hundreds of people online having the same problem a lot have contacted retailers and been told that its not their fault so go away . I kept trawling and found some answers , hydrolysis is when the souls disintegrate and it would seem that the vinyl covering of pleather as they call it now has to be biodegradable so quite literally they are designed to rot in landfill. You have no idea when buying shoes how long theyve been made surely they should come with a sell by date ?
Few years ago there was this epidemic of crumbling shoe soles in work boots. They found out it was because of the material of the soles, changed the provider of that material and problem solved. It was that bad the shoes disintegrated while they were sitting on the shelves. I was lucky my boots were ancient and the kept their soles, and then I got a new pair AFTER the disaster.
ReplyDeleteBut it didn't have anything to do with legislation, it was because the material producer wanted to get more profit.
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Good Clarke’s boots, which I got out of the wardrobe to wear again for winter. I walked across the car park and suddenly I was walking with wet socks, the leather uppers flapping, and crumbly lumps of crêpe sole, like footprints, behind me. Several pairs of shoes have had crêpe soles turn to powder in recent years.
ReplyDeletethis is interesting! I think a use by date and a sell by date need to be applied.
ReplyDeleteI bought some sandals at a thrift store and the first time that I wore them, they just crumbled as I walked. I dropped them into a garbage can and walked out of a store in my bare feet. I still think it was funny.
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