SoleHeeled offers convenient and affordable Salvatore Ferragamo shoe repairs by Australia’s best craftsmen, with free shipping to your door. This case study outlines how we recently repaired a customer’s Salvatore Ferragamo shoes.

Salvatore Ferragamo Shoe Hardware Replating

Brand

Salvatore Ferragamo logo

Service

Shoe hardware polishing and re-plating

Customer location

Maitland Vale in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales

The shoes

These Ferragamo Varina Ballet flats were well-looked after, but the gold hardware on the Vara bows had become heavily tarnished and discoloured. When the customer reached out to us for a free diagnosis/quote, we offered to polished and replated the hardware.

Hardware polishing and re-plating

We started off by cleaning the hardware and polishing the hardware. This allowed us buff away the tarnishing and lighter scratches in the hardware, though it was important to do so only very lightly, so as to avoid removing too much of the metal’s outer layer.

We then proceeded to replate the metal to restore its original gold colour. This involved using special equipment that allows us to bond thin layers of 24k gold on the surface of the metal, and then specially sealing the hardware to protect it going forward.

Have a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes needing repair or restoration?

Our experienced craftsmen have been trusted by not only generations of Australians but also local and international brands (including Gucci and NET-A-PORTER) with the repair and restoration of luxury designer shoes since 1955. If you have a beloved pair of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes in need of repair or restoration, ask us for a free diagnosis/quote by completing our online order form — where you can upload photos of the shoes and let us know exactly what you would like done to it, or let us advise you on what the shoes need based on the photos.

SoleHeeled serves all of Australia through its free 2-way shipping service:

  1. Order online: Answer a few questions to get an instant quote and complete your order.

  2. Send your shoes: Drop your shoes off at a local post office for free packaging and shipping to us.

  3. We repair: A team of experienced craftsmen will carefully repair your shoes.

  4. We return: We'll deliver your repaired shoes to you, wherever you are in Australia.

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