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To clean sneakers use mild soapy water and a soft bristle scrub brush. Use this brush over a large sink. Use a mild detergent like Joy and pour a little on the brush. If you don’t have Joy any dishsoap you have available will do. Put your non dominant hand in the shoe and turn it over. Let the water trickle. Scrub the bottom of the shoe and rinse. Careful to not let the water get into the shoe and repeat on each side. Use a towel and allow to air dry. Avoid the laces if they aren’t dirty. If they are remove the laces and ball them up in your hand. Use the detergent and lather/scrub the laces together. You will see the dirt come out. Press on the laces firmly from with your thumb and forefinger and with your other hand pull the laces through one at a time. This should remove more dirt and soapy water. Allow to air dry.If the shoes are white there’s and awesome product called shoe whitener.Once the shoes are dry you can use the shoe whitener like a paint/ old school white out.Use a little bit at first to get familiar with the colour and technique. Avoid any colored spots on the shoe.

Depends on what material they’re made of. Usually for the outsole, a Magic Eraser does the trick. Get it a little wet and then scrub at any stains, and more often than not they come right out. If your toebox is made of a similar material to the outsole, you can usually use the same trick there, too. As far as keeping the upper white, the obvious tip is to not wear them through mud, grass, or anything else that’s likely to stain them. For canvas sneakers, like Converse and Vans, a paste of baking soda and vinegar can be scrubbed in with a clean toothbrush, and the stains should lift right out. For suede shoes, which are SUPER popular right now, a normal pencil eraser can sometimes lift surface marks. Make sure your shoes are completely dry before you do this. A little more care will need to be taken for removing stains that don’t come off with the eraser trick, but there’s a lot of guides online about caring for suede (like I said, super popular right now). Another technique is gentle laundry detergent in warm water with a soft cloth. This technique is good for most shoe materials. It really comes down to what your shoes are made of. A quick Google search can yield tons of tips, often broken down by specific fabric. Obviously, the best tip is just to be conscientious when wearing your white shoes, and store them properly to minimize how much dirt they collect when not being worn.

t depends a lot on the “look” you are trying to achieve.High tops are very popular, especially now since skinny jeans has become unfashionable, and the move is going towards baggy and long. Do not wear them with shorts, especially not gym shorts - the look is terrible! The most popular way to wear high tops is with full length jeans, regular or baggy fit, but if you wear low cut socks, you can easily wear high tops with 3/4 jeans and the look will be very good. Always wear the tongue of the high tops in front of your jeans (so tuck the jeans behind the tongue). Its also very popular to loose lace them, and if they have a velcro strap, to wear that unstrapped, to the side. Lately, its also very fashionable to have 2 laces of different colour in each sneaker with the lace ends sticking out about 2 inches from each hole. The most popular brands are the thicker puffier Nikes, Adidas, Osiris, DC’s, Ewings etc. These are well made, good quality and very supportive high tops. Definitely not the thinner styles like Converse that offer no support, are very thin and fall apart easily.