What is the best way(s) to polish military boots for parading?
1) You’ll need a bag of cotton balls, alcohol, ice-cold water, Kiwi shoe polish, a lighter, Kiwi edge finish and either nylon panty hose or a cut-up t-shirt about 4″x8″. If you do the shining inside the house, get some newspaper, too. Put on some old sweat pants that you don’t mind getting dirty. 2) Strip and shower. Get the factory gunk off the boots by rubbing alcohol all over yoru boot. Use some cloth, dip it with rubbing alcohol, and apply. Then take the laces out and put your boots in a warm shower. This breaks ’em in a little easier to take in the wax. It’s almost like opening up the pores for your boots. Let them sit in the shower for 10 minutes and then take them out. 3) Apply heat. Sometimes you see people set the boot wax on fire before putting it on the boot. That’s just too messy and doesn’t work all that well. The best way to get the boot to accept the wax is to heat the boot itself. Start in sections so that the wax takes faster. For instance, heat up just the steel toe a
