Shoe dye, anyone ever dyed a pair of shoes? Any tips?

[Katiekitty]

Hello - I've got a pair of white leather shoes and I fancy them more as a pair of red shoes... so I'm thinking about dyeing them. Am I flirting with disaster, or will it be smiles all round? Any tips?

Anyone? Nope? Looks like unchartered territory... am I the first to take the plunge?

Absolutely no tips. However, at my sister's wedding we (bridesmaids) had our shoes profressionally dyed to match the dresses. They looked great to start out, but after my sweaty feet had been in them for a while they had horrible tide marks all over them!! On reflection, a non-matching but more colourfast solution might have been better. Good luck.

Top tip foofi! I shall look for a colourfast dye. I'm going to hopefully get the dye today, so I shall read the box carefully.

I dyed my bright red shoes black so I could wear them to school.

They looked ok (although I was sad that the fab red colour had to be covered up, but my tight-arsed mum wouldn't buy me another pair) but when I started to walk in them, in the creases you get where your toes meet your foot, the black started to flake off and the red showed through.

Obviously this was some considerable time ago and shoe dyes may well have got more efficient at actually dyeing the shoe in the intervening years, but I thought I'd share anyway.

I've dyed ballet shoes which looked fabulous imo, but never leather...