How To Clean & Maintain Suede Leather | Expert Shoe Care

About this video

The Gazette team hosts Preston Soto of The Elegant Oxford for a masterclass on shoe leather care, focusing primarily on suede maintenance techniques. They cover essential tools and products for cleaning, conditioning, and protecting suede, as well as treating combination leather shoes and addressing common wear issues like napping and stains.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team recommends using a pumice eraser rather than regular erasers for cleaning suede, as it effectively removes surface dirt and marks without damaging the material
• According to the Gazette team’s guest expert, suede should be conditioned with spray renovators or spray conditioners—never with wax polish or cream—and higher-end waterproofing products like Saphir’s Super Invulner are recommended for quality shoes
• The Gazette team demonstrates that a crepe brush or brass brush can restore napped suede by lifting and moving the nap, and a lighter can be carefully used to smooth worn nap, though spray application and edge paint require precision to avoid contact with suede areas

Episode details: published June 2, 2026 · 14K views · 7:36 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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