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We have 2 ode to H footwear threads, one is for SHOES only and the other for BOOTS only .

If your post is about BOOTS and NOT shoes, please post on the ode to boots thread here: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...o-h-boots-thread.535045/page-47#post-32637422

If your post is about SHOES only, then post on this thread.

If if you have a reveal, comment, question about both please post about the SHOES on here and then go to https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...o-h-boots-thread.535045/page-47#post-32637422 and post about boots on there.

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Daosabao said:
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Hello! Here is my beloved Night 70. It's so lovely but I find it so painful to walk in. The sides just squeeze my toes so tight, like the leather is too stiff. Is there any way to soften the leather? I have another pair in silver too which I hardly wear cos it's too uncomfortable and painful :sad:

Thanks for any help and advice!
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Love your Night 70 shoes!
I sympathize! I'm having the same issue with my Hermes Oasis sandals. I've worn them twice and both times I've gotten horrendous blisters. I've even tried putting moleskin inside on the shoe where it's rubbing my feet and nothing has helped. They are super stiff! Got big blisters again today when I wore them for a short shopping trip, despite the moleskin and putting bandaids on my feet in advance. I hope someone has a suggestion for softening up the leather because it's brutalizing my poor feet!
Daosabao said:
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Hello! Here is my beloved Night 70. It's so lovely but I find it so painful to walk in. The sides just squeeze my toes so tight, like the leather is too stiff. Is there any way to soften the leather? I have another pair in silver too which I hardly wear cos it's too uncomfortable and painful :sad:

Thanks for any help and advice!
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Love your Night 70 shoes!
I sympathize! I'm having the same issue with my Hermes Oasis sandals. I've worn them twice and both times I've gotten horrendous blisters. I've even tried putting moleskin inside the shoe where it's rubbing my feet and nothing has helped. They are super stiff! I got big blisters again today when I wore them for a short shopping trip, despite the moleskin and putting bandaids on my feet in advance. I hope someone has a suggestion for softening up the leather because it's brutalizing my poor feet!
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Daosabao said:
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Hello! Here is my beloved Night 70. It's so lovely but I find it so painful to walk in. The sides just squeeze my toes so tight, like the leather is too stiff. Is there any way to soften the leather? I have another pair in silver too which I hardly wear cos it's too uncomfortable and painful :sad:

Thanks for any help and advice!
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When I was in Neiman Marcus today, wearing the Hermes sandals that were killing my feet, the sales associate told me to try putting alcohol on the leather (on the inside of the shoe) to soften it. Just now while Googling for a solution, I found an article that suggests alcohol, followed by vaseline. It said to let the alcohol remain on the leather for 30 minutes, then add the vaseline. I think I'm going to try "Cadillac Select Leather Lotion" that I ordered from Amazon recently. I ordered it to treat a purse but I think I will try it on the leather inside my sandals, too. If that doesn't work, I may try the alcohol/vaseline trick next. My feet can't take much more of these sandals.
 
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Daosabao said:
View attachment 3704235

Hello! Here is my beloved Night 70. It's so lovely but I find it so painful to walk in. The sides just squeeze my toes so tight, like the leather is too stiff. Is there any way to soften the leather? I have another pair in silver too which I hardly wear cos it's too uncomfortable and painful :sad:

Thanks for any help and advice!
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I had the same problem... in the store... so I didn't buy. My feet are to wide in the front for some H styles... including this one.... Sorry hun!
 
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HeartHermes said:
Love your Night 70 shoes!
I sympathize! I'm having the same issue with my Hermes Oasis sandals. I've worn them twice and both times I've gotten horrendous blisters. I've even tried putting moleskin inside on the shoe where it's rubbing my feet and nothing has helped. They are super stiff! Got big blisters again today when I wore them for a short shopping trip, despite the moleskin and putting bandaids on my feet in advance. I hope someone has a suggestion for softening up the leather because it's brutalizing my poor feet!


Love your Night 70 shoes!
I sympathize! I'm having the same issue with my Hermes Oasis sandals. I've worn them twice and both times I've gotten horrendous blisters. I've even tried putting moleskin inside the shoe where it's rubbing my feet and nothing has helped. They are super stiff! I got big blisters again today when I wore them for a short shopping trip, despite the moleskin and putting bandaids on my feet in advance. I hope someone has a suggestion for softening up the leather because it's brutalizing my poor feet!
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I have a pair of these in black patent supple Epsom (supposed to be softer) and they are soooooo painful in the front. I feel u. I haven't worn them in 2 years =(
 
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HeartHermes said:
When I was in Neiman Marcus today, wearing the Hermes sandals that were killing my feet, the sales associate told me to try putting alcohol on the leather (on the inside of the shoe) to soften it. Just now while Googling for a solution, I found an article that suggests alcohol, followed by vaseline. It said to let the alcohol remain on the leather for 30 minutes, then add the vaseline. I think I'm going to try "Cadillac Select Leather Lotion" that I ordered from Amazon recently. I ordered it to treat a purse but I think I will try it on the leather inside my sandals, too. If that doesn't work, I may try the alcohol/vaseline trick next. My feet can't take much more of these sandals.
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Israeli_Flava said:
I have a pair of these in black patent supple Epsom (supposed to be softer) and they are soooooo painful in the front. I feel u. I haven't worn them in 2 years =(
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I too have wide feet :( especially in Summer my feet would just expand up to 1 size bigger! hence I took the Oasis half size bigger and used a "shoe stretcher foam" which I got from my cobbler. I'm from Europe so I don't know if there's something similar sold in US? It looks like those hair styling moose. I basically put some of the foam on the inside, rub it in and wear the sandals with socks for 30mnt or so. I do that with all my shoes which are a bit tight at the front! Hope this helps lovelies!
 
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To soften up leather, you need to warm it and get it to stretch. The old trick is to use your hairdryer to heat up sections of the leather until the leather is very warm (but not burning hot which would ruin it.) Here is what I do: for sandals, I put thin socks on as I don't want the leather to expand too much, but I need to protect my skin from the hairdryer. I put the hairdryer within1/2-1inch (say 2-3 cm) for about 5 to 6 seconds on one spot and then move it around each part of the front of the shoe until the whole leather is warm. Do both shoes and walk and stand around in them until they cool, say 1-2 hours. Then do it again, and again.

Last pair of shoes I did, there was one small spot that wouldn't stretch; I had to do it eight times over about a week (giving the leather time to recover between each bout of heating). On the last time, I felt the leather in the awkward spot suddenly 'give' and relax. The shoes have been fine since. I made sure I polished them to compensate for any drying effect of the heat once they had stretched to fit my feet.

Epsom is stiff so it many take many rounds of this treatment to get the leather to relax. Remember warm-very warm but not burning hot (use lower heat setting for safety). If you are worried about the leather becoming too dry, use some moisturising polish in between heating bouts, but don't overdo it.

HTH.
 
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HeartHermes said:
Love your Night 70 shoes!
I sympathize! I'm having the same issue with my Hermes Oasis sandals. I've worn them twice and both times I've gotten horrendous blisters. I've even tried putting moleskin inside on the shoe where it's rubbing my feet and nothing has helped. They are super stiff! Got big blisters again today when I wore them for a short shopping trip, despite the moleskin and putting bandaids on my feet in advance. I hope someone has a suggestion for softening up the leather because it's brutalizing my poor feet!


Love your Night 70 shoes!
I sympathize! I'm having the same issue with my Hermes Oasis sandals. I've worn them twice and both times I've gotten horrendous blisters. I've even tried putting moleskin inside the shoe where it's rubbing my feet and nothing has helped. They are super stiff! I got big blisters again today when I wore them for a short shopping trip, despite the moleskin and putting bandaids on my feet in advance. I hope someone has a suggestion for softening up the leather because it's brutalizing my poor feet!
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My suggestions might be too late for you.. choose calfskin instead of Epsom, and try to buy half size bigger, as it would be a bit looser but not significant difference for the length.
 
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mygoodies said:
I too have wide feet :sad: especially in Summer my feet would just expand up to 1 size bigger! hence I took the Oasis half size bigger and used a "shoe stretcher foam" which I got from my cobbler. I'm from Europe so I don't know if there's something similar sold in US? It looks like those hair styling moose. I basically put some of the foam on the inside, rub it in and wear the sandals with socks for 30mnt or so. I do that with all my shoes which are a bit tight at the front! Hope this helps lovelies!
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Thanks for that info, didn't realize they had a shoe stretcher foam! Good to know! Actually, the size of my sandals is okay, they aren't too tight. They are just impossibly rigid and stiff, like I'm wearing plexiglass shoes. :yucky:
 
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The European site has all the sizes of the Neo ankleboot in black and I ordered my first pair. I remember trying Brighton at the boutique in 38,5 but now I ordered 39, hoping it will be perfect. It will take at least 4 months before I can wear them, feels funny to shop boots when I'm wearing Tod's loafers and soon sandals.
 
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