So the moral of the story for those of us who would never spend that kind of money on shoes (but still have a tendency to destroy the ones we do buy): take them to a cobbler shop, as y'all can do far more than *just* fix them once we've destroyed them! 😊 I love a preventative solution!
Few notes I feel are important to add: from the perspective as someone who sells leather sole shoes. 1. Painted soles are incredibly common, not just unique to designer shoes. You buy an all black dress shoe with leather soles? Wear it out on concrete once and that sole is gonna start developing some grey to tan wear spots. This is normal! Show off those wear patterns with pride, or invest in some sole polish to cover it up! 2. Rubber vs leather soles have completely different traction! Most normal people don’t have to worry about this, but if your buying shoes for dancing a rubber sole is going to make doing pivots, and other more slide-y moves a lil more difficult. Rubber grips - leather doesn’t. 3. Slapping a rubber sole on a pair of Louboutin’s that originally had a leather sole is gonna plummet the value of the shoe. Once you alter the shoe like this, you cannot go back without completely resoleing the thing.
No normal shoe costs $1000. You buy that shoe, the cost the the key feature you pay for. Paint wearing off is the point. It shows you have enough wealth to spend $1000 per week on shoes. Disgusting consumerist attitude, but it's important to understand the psychology behind it.
The fact that we pay high price for things that are not even made well. Why isn't Louboutin making the soles with this material in the first place? The paint is such a lazy idea to make people pay more.
The most valuable thing about Louboutin shoes and red soles is that you can see how they wear out, which means that you don’t worry about you shoes and can afford to buy more.
@@stephenstone4096 Or repainted, which might still protect the sole, since the real bottom isn’t the part getting scraped up, the red paint is. Honestly might be kinda smart… but I agree with the guy in the video, they really should use rubber.
Thanks! I have been trained to become a shoemaker for a year and haven't had the chance to work on Louboutin shoes, but we do have those rubber soles in the shop, I am really hype to do my first pair!
Leather soles are more desirable than rubber soles, but it really comes down to a personal preference. I have had a couple of shoes with painted leather soles, and it just wears off eventually no matter how good the quality is on the shoe construction. Good shoes are worth it though - if they are actually good, high quality shoes rather than cheap crap with a fancy label. (I know nothing about Louboutin or their quality, so I'm commenting generally rather than on this particular shoemaker). I have several pairs of boots in the $400 - $600 (and a few higher than that...), but I've never had to replace them. Just a resole every so often. A lot of the cheap crap with glued on soles need replaced every year costing more in the long run. I see it more as an investment in quality rather than a status symbol and a luxury item, but it is a privilege that not everyone has to be able to afford that upfront cost of quality material and craftsmanship.
I have an immense distain for shoes and their ridiculous prices. But i respect the hell out of this man, artisan and knows how to build it better. Hell yea
Easy way to counter the red paint wearing is to have a shop that does Paint Protection Film (normally a car shop) apply the PPF to the red bottoms we used to do it to them for high end clients and it holds up perfect and you can replace it after a few years
Doing mirror finish red soles is one of my favourite parts of my job. The best ones are when ladies come in with new look shoes and want the mirror red soles. The lads and I call that repair a lewy buttons.
Hey can you try a textured transparent resin on the bottom of a pair of shoes, my idea is you still see the red paint but have a thin textured layer of resin on the bottom of the shoe protecting from wear and tear while still giving you grip.
It's no secret. Christian was quite open with the story behind how he came up with the idea. He saw one of his colleagues applying nail polish and decided it would be a good idea to apply it to the underside of the shoes.
the problem is it doesn’t match, when you showed the shoe i could easily see where the new rubber pad was added, making the shoe look fake or off. it would need to match 99% and not catch someones eye. maybe a full red pad, with a circle cut out for the original logo?
I really can't understand why people that can afford CL shoes don't opt instead for well made heritage and bespoke brand shoes that look great along with protecting your feet.
Trying to keep my Christian Louboutin lookin good is about impossible. I found some clear urethane sticky bottoms that worked fairly well but didn't look near as well as this. They are replaceable. I think I'm gonna send my Christian Louboutins to this guy. I'm in the US, pretty sure, or sounds like he might be in England. Just shipping, I don't think thats to big of a deal. I like what he's doing and we don't have anyone good here. Just people who think they are. This guy is innovative and talented!
Wow that's surprising... why didn't the original company figure out this rubber sole thing? Wouldn't that make the shoes safer to wear while still being stylish?
So I wonder, if the original louboutin shoes are very slippery because there is just a flat surface on the bottom of the soles, so less of traction there
There's a dude that goes to the Goodwill and buys men's shoes and polishes them making them look brand new on RU-vid. I'm ready to start going to my Goodwill's and doing the same thing and reselling these shoes
the problem with using heat activated glue to stick soles is that the pavements we walk heat up in the sun,which can reactivate the glue and make it lose its adhession.
@@Dan_the_cobbler that combined with the friction from walking imo are what is responsible for so many shoe soles failing. Most manufacturers use the same heat activated adhesives?
The point is to wear out. A pair of loubs are supposed to be like a nice Rolex. You wear them in. And also show the world the red gets worn in. Like scratches on a Rolex. Sometime in the last 10-13 years people go overboard with everything. And ruins the experience like this.
I had a pair that turned into brown bottom 😂 I will never in my life spend 1200 on shoes again! Idc if they drop to 3 bucks they are uncomfortable and they don’t last like cheap Jordan’s or Nikes
I love how it's always the extremely expensive clothing companies that use the cheapest crap or just disintegrate with regular use. Requiring other people to come up with techniques that allow them to wear these expensive clothes and actually be functional.
I never understood this brand. They are surely not comfortable, their soles are pai tes with a cheap paint. And the worse? You pay $1,000 to spend even more on a cobbler to change the soles. Crazy. BTW... Good job as always Dan
If you were to resale your LB’s this would lower price or unauthentic them. Like if you took something off a Rolex watch. As the paint has a legal patent so that’s what you pay for.
