I bought this pair of lightweight, plain canvas shoes for the gym a couple months ago. Functionally, I like them. I also like their very plain aesthetic, but the canvas material holds on to dirt like nothing else. It’s not a smooth material; it’s very porous, so it’s not like you can brush dirt off of them, either. It gets trapped right in there.

Today I tried cleaning them with Fels-Naptha soap and a bristle brush. It worked pretty well.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    4·
    26 days ago

    If you don’t mind soaking them, a sink of warm water and a few teaspoons of LAs totally Awesome cleaner from certain dollar stores or home depot, will clean off almost any dirt, oil, grease, stain etc. You can give them a pre spray too before soaking.

    • tuckerm@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      26 days ago

      Thanks for the tip, I might try this next time. I basically saturated them with water when cleaning them just now, so I don’t think soaking them would be much different. I also wonder if washing soda would improve them a little.

    • tuckerm@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      26 days ago

      Thanks! I agree, they do look like something from an earlier decade. I also needed new shorts and shirts around the same time that I got these, and I decided to just get some completely plain cotton shorts, t-shirts, and tank tops. I like how my current athletic wear would be completely standard at any time between about 1920 and 1970.