Wow, no wonder I quit coming in here to help. Two years after the initial instructions, and people still asking stupid questions. If there was ANYTHING betterthan Sea Glow to fix the shoes, we'd know by now. The instructions are on page one. Try starting there. This is going to probably be one of my last postshere. Thankfully I'm not getting flooded with IMs anymore on how to clean shoes, but the sheer amount of stupidity in here, the redundant questions, thesame misinformation over and over again, I'm not really going to deal with any longer. I came on here to post some new information, which I am sure, asalways, won't get looked at and won't be listened to because you're too interested in using harsh chemicals, like Clorox bleach, to pay attention.
RIT is a company that makes dyes. They also make fabric safe chemicals to remove dyes and stains. The two of them are Whitener and Brightner and White Wash. Igot a pair of retro XI's, and the uppers were almost as yellow as the soles. They looked like someone walked through piss in them. I did two things to takethe garbage out of them. First, boil you some water, and pour about a cup of water in with about a quarter cup of color safe bleach, and go after it with astiff toothbrush. Then, take a cup of boiling water and a tablespoon of the Whitener and Brightner in a bowl, and mix it up, make sure it completely dissolves,and work it into the uppers. After you do that, take a bowl of boiling water and brush it into the shoes to get the Whitener and colorsafe bleach out. You mayneed to do this two or three times to get all the cleaning stuff out. I will 'maybe' post some pics of what it looks like afterwards. When the shoescame in, they were basically yellow. I tried wearing them out one day, but the bright white laces made them look extremely stupid. Now, they almost blend in. Imay tint the laces down heavily using the same white wash technique. This is far, far better than the tried and useless jesture of using Barkeeper's Friendon the uppers. Yes, you can use it, and yes, it requires some work getting it out of the uppers in the end, but this method works far, far better at gettingthe color back.
http://www.ritdye.com/Fabric+Treatments.28.51.7.50.lasso
http://www.ritdye.com/Fabric+Treatments.28.51.7.48.lasso
You can find these easily at Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, etc.