{"id":46,"date":"2026-10-06T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/breaking-in-leather-shoes-without-blisters\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:41:46","slug":"breaking-in-leather-shoes-without-blisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/breaking-in-leather-shoes-without-blisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking in leather shoes without blisters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New leather soles are slippery and new uppers are stiff. Both settle within a couple of weeks (sample guide).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wear new shoes indoors for an evening or two with the socks you will wear outside. Then wear them for half a day, and rest them a day in between with cedar shoe trees inside.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a heel rubs, a little leather balm on the inside of the counter softens it. If they still pinch after two weeks, bring them in: a cobbler can stretch a toe box by a few millimetres.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wear them at home for an evening first, and never two days running (sample guide).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-clothes-shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}