February 14th, 2008 | emmylee |

The cool cats at Jason Markk gifted me a cleaning kit some time ago, but I didn’t have the opportunity to try it out until this week. And even despite positive reviews from Yu Ming (Freshness), Rickey Kim (Evil Monito), Jessica (Fatlace), and every other person I know who’s tried it, I was still skeptical. Just one of those, “oh, it’s gonna work for everyone EXCEPT me” type things, you know?
Anyways, I decided to start with some ridiculously beat Converse Chuck Taylors just in case I messed it up somehow. Your typical ‘before’ shots:


And… voila!


Amazing, I know. Fearing this formula to be too good to be true, I commenced with yet another pair of super beat Chucks.

I focused primarily on the toebox and midsole ‘cuz I’m not sure how JM works on cloth. Jason, care to share some insight?

//EDIT: Jason hit me up told me that it does work on cloth too. “Some materials are more difficult to clean because some are more absorbent or harder to reach than others (i.e. cloth, cotton mesh). However, JM will definitely improve the current condition of the sneaker.” Here are a couple pictures Jason sent me of JM on cloth:
Then, it was on to attack my current favorites: Fragment Converse Chuck Taylor.

I like my normal Chucks worn in, but I like these fresh :)


You might be thinking, “Damn, this girl has serious time on her hands to be cleaning all these shoes and taking mad pics!” Oh, but you are deceived. This process took me probably less than 30 minutes to complete. 5 pairs, 30 minutes… I’d say that’s pretty damn good.




Peep the color difference between the left and right shoe.

MAGIC, not like the tradeshow:

And of course, a thank you to Jason and Ric for hooking it up! I enjoy supporting great products, but it’s always nicer when the people behind it are great as well :) You can purchase a kit here.