Every time I clean something like this it ends up ruined. I have a nice soft leather jacket I wanted to protect, so I researched and bought this really nice beeswax leather treatment stuff. Applied it to the jacket and it got in all of the stitching seams and shows bright white against the black. No amount of hair drying, soap and toothbrush, or rubbing gets it out.

Cleaned my car seats and stupidly rubbed them with paper towels. Words can not express how many ways I’ve tried getting those little paper fragments out of the nylon/cloth seats.

Your shoes look great, though.