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Not every case is a rescue
A pair of Chloé Woody sandals, canvas straps gone grey from honest wear — cleaned, refreshed, and back in rotation. This is what most of our work actually looks like.
What came in
The Woody slide is one of those pieces that gets worn constantly — which is exactly how its cream canvas straps end up grey, with dark scuff marks worked into the weave. Nothing dramatic had happened to these; they'd simply been enjoyed. The owner wanted them back to cream without risking the printed logo or the leather footbed.
The quiet work
Canvas-and-leather pieces are a two-material job: the woven straps take cleaning that the leather footbed shouldn't, and the printed lettering shouldn't meet anything that could lift or dull it. So each part gets its own treatment — the straps worked back toward cream, the leather cleaned and fed separately, the print left crisp. Routine work, done carefully. The photos show the rest.
The honest note
Most of what passes through our facility isn't a dramatic rescue — it's exactly this: well-loved pieces maintained before wear becomes damage. That's the quiet economics of garment and accessory care. Cleaned regularly, canvas and leather age slowly and gracefully; left until the grime is part of the fibre, the same job gets harder and the odds get worse. As always, whites and pale canvas rarely return to showroom-new — these came remarkably close — and we'll tell you what's realistic for yours before we start.