3 Sneaker Cleaning Services in Bangkok To Keep Your Kicks Looking Fresh
For all the sneakerheads in Thailand, scuffing your favorite kicks may be comparable to stabbing your own foot. The pain you feel when seeing an unwanted blotch of dirt smeared on your prized footwear is real - and may be hard to comprehend for some - but definitely real.
This pain is further exacerbated when the shoe you are wearing is a limited release or is considered a colorway that was hard to find. But of course, this is the case.
Rare sneakers like the Nike Dunk SB Low Staple “NYC Pigeon” have fetched up to $7,000 (THB 238,000) on the open resale market and the much sought after Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 Pirate Black has been seen listed at prices over $1,000 (THB 34,000).
To get an idea of how crazy the shoe game has become, head on over to www.StockX.com - an online real-time sneaker bidding marketplace that will show you how valuable some shoes are.
When people are paying large sums of money for a pair of shoes, it is only natural that they want to take good care of it. There have been entire bedrooms that have been converted into specialized shoe storage.
Products like the Kicksholder have also been developed to help prevent your shoes from being damaged, but to imagine having to slip on a “shoe raincoat” every time you go out may also be unrealistic. So what are Bangkok’s sneakerheads to do?
Time to rejoice! A new shoe care service has popped up in town - and most are run by sneakerheads that understand your feels. If your beloved kicks have unfortunately been dragged in the mud or have been stomped on one too many times, these experts are on their way to the rescue.
Our city may not have our own Jason Markk boutique shoe cleaning stores, but we do have the following 3 sneaker cleaning services that will keep your kicks always looking fresh. Time for your babies to go on a shoe spa date.
SHKLEANER
Expensive shoes deserve a professional clean. Shkleaner (pronounced Sha-Klean-Ner) not only ensures that they understand how to clean your shoes properly with shoe-specific products, but they also confirm that they themselves are shoe enthusiasts that understand the value of your beloved kicks as well.
Therefore, when cleaning with them, you can be sure to have peace of mind and peace of sole (excuse the pun).
Although they do not have a permanent storefront yet, you can get your kicks professionally cleaned by them through 4 channels. First, you can find one of their pop-up booths usually opened on the first weekend of each month at selected SEEK stores.
Secondly, you can make a shoe-drop in Shkleaner’s BTS SkyBox dropoffs. Third, you can mail the shoe to JD Boy’s office or lastly, you can mail the shoe to their office address in Bangna.
JCNA
Your sneakers are dirty. And as much as you love your sneakers, you also love your time. Spending hours in the Bangkok traffic to bring your prized possession to the cleaners sounds like a chore that is way too time consuming for you.
So instead, you spend day after day staring at that one big black scuff mark your sneakers have been carrying for months - each time feeling a stinging pain in your heart.
The team at JCNA aims to fix that problem because their service includes cleaning you sneakers without you ever having to leave the house. Choose either to send your sneakers by post to JCNA or have one of their team of messengers pick it up right at your house.
They use shoe specific cleaning products and offer multiple services for you to choose from including your basic clean and unyellowing of your white shoe soles.
Empire Sneaker Lab
Whether we like it or not, sometimes a deep clean may not be good enough for our shoes. Some scuff marks are beyond “cleaning”.
All there is to do is accept the unacceptable and move on…until now. Empire Sneaker Lab is not only a cleaner, but they are also restorers/repairers extraordinaire. Bring in your kicks for a full clean and restore any time.
The Empire Sneaker Lab exclusively uses products from Angelus - considered by some to be the world's best leather care products & sneaker accessories.
The products include shoe cleaning agents as well as paints that the team uses to restore any color damages to your kicks. You can be sure that your sneakers will come out looking fresh-to-death in no time.