Warning: keep using your shoes.

Pollycat

mttylad wrote: »

And its a load of rollocks!

I have had shoes in the cuboard for years - never heard of that happening.

I do however know that the quality of clarks shoes has seriously declined over recent years, now they are just another retailer and not the high class shoes that they used to be (and still charge as if they are).

Just because you've not heard about it doesn't mean it's 'rollocks'.

I've had it happen to a couple of pairs of my shoes.
Not split soles but disintegrating soles.

I think it must be a certain sole composition.

hollydays

This thread is sole destroying .. He he

yangptangkipperbang

LilElvis wrote: »

I have about 120 pairs of shoes

............are you a centipede ?

pollypenny

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Interesting. I bought a pair of Lilley & Skinner shoes six months ago - identical to a pair I was already wearing but spotted in the sale so purchased & kept for when needed in the future. I started wearing them on returning to work after New Year and both soles have already cracked all the way across, left to right. I wondered if that was down to storing them instead of wearing them (& flexing them) ... Unfortunately I didn't keep the receipt or anything, so no chance of returning them.

If you paid by card the shop should accept the entry on your statement as proof of purchase.

LilElvis

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

............are you a centipede ?

No - I just have the standard issue 2 feet! One left, one right. Size 3

Just really, really like shoes

paulsad

I used to be a printer and at one time we used to get rubber rollers re-covered in a plastic synthetic type rubber - this would turn to goopy liquid after a couple of years.

Strider590

Sounds more like phalate seepage from the rubber.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

..........I buy shoes to wear them - not to store in a cupboard for years !

If you are buying them as an investment go for Jimmy Choo or similar :rotfl::rotfl:

Obviously not married, then!

BobQ

LilElvis wrote: »

I really hope this is late night spam!

I have about 120 pairs of shoes and this has never happened even though - obviously - many of these are worn infrequently. The only ones that don't seem to last that well are patent leather ones, but this is the uppers and nothing to do with the soles.

I resemble that remark!

Its not spam.

I have never had it happen to me either until now.

Try googling it.
http://www.complaints.com/2013-04-02/clothing-shoes-apparel/cj-clark/street-somerset-ba16-0eq-uk/shoes/1001364923000248711.html

http://www.blundstone.com/au-news-and-events/facts-about-hydrolysis

http://www.complaintboard.com/ecco-shoes-l2510.html

BobQ

LilElvis wrote: »

I really hope this is late night spam!

I have about 120 pairs of shoes and this has never happened even though - obviously - many of these are worn infrequently. The only ones that don't seem to last that well are patent leather ones, but this is the uppers and nothing to do with the soles.

Well I hope you do not have 120 shoes with these types of sole sine the solution would be to systematically wear a different pair each day.:)