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October 04, 2006

Experts' Expert: Richard Lambertson on touching up scuffed leather

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Lambertson is a former design director at Gucci who's now co-creative director (with John Truex) of Lambertson Truex, a manufacturer of high-end leather goods.

In the course of a shopping trip with the Wall Street Journal's Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan to choose men's wallets for a story that appeared on September 30 he dropped a few pearls, among them this:

Use a permanent marker to touch up "corners that turn white after a while."

Great minds — well, minds, anyway — think alike.

For many, many years I've prepared myself for formal events by detailing the edges of the leather soles of my black dress shoes with a Magic Marker.

The ultimate in quick and dirty instant upgrades.

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And don't forget -- if you have some old black shoes that have maybe sprung a hole in a toe, or two, and you're partial to wearing white athletic socks, a dab of black MagicMarker on the toe of the sock and you're good to go.

Yeah, you COULD wear black socks, but where's the fun in that?

Posted by: Flautist | Oct 4, 2006 2:25:35 PM

I can almost smell that marker-magic-perma-ink order wafting up from the screen.

Posted by: Mb | Oct 4, 2006 12:49:21 PM

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