If you have any shoe repair questions. Email us your request . Nick Valenti One of the most common mistakes sales clerks and customers make when selecting a pair of fabric shoes to be dyed is they assume if a shoe is made of white or light colored fabric it can be dyed. There are three reasons why this is not the case.
Most fabrics used today are synthetic.
Many synthetics will repel rather than absorb liquids including dyes. If the shoe was not intended to be dyed, the manufacturer may have scotch guarded the fabric in order to protect the shoes from becoming soiled. In the manufacturing process sometimes the uppers are cemented to the liners with clear cement. The cement tends bleed through the upper material. The results of cases two and three will be the same as described in the first case.