FOOTMATTERS Professional Boot & Shoe Stretch Spray – Softener & Stretcher for Leather, Suede, Nubuck, Canvas – 4 oz

My husband bought me these $$ Michael Kors boots in a similar style to doc martins . I have RIDICULOUSLY wide feet after the birth of my kids as well as a high instep . These boots were way too tight...so much so that the heel of my foot would slide up and down because the front of my foot was locked in so tight.I brought them to this fancy looking cobbler near my office on Beacon Hill in Boston...figure the guy services all the lawmakers and bougie people with $$ shoes so he must know his ish...Paid like $45 to have the them stretched. When I picked them up he told me he had stretched them as much as was possible without damaging the boots. I said how would the boots become damaged and he said that the sides would start to separate away from the bottom of the boot if stretched too much. I took him at his word that this was the best I could hope to get and went home to utter disappointment 😥 the boots were BARELY any better than before and I was relegated to wearing these beauty's to occasions like house parties when I knew I wouldn't be walking much 😭😭While looking for something else I happened across this spray and said WHAT THE HECK....Can't hurt.... I bought the spray and a pair of boot stretchers. Both items came within a day. Great shipping for both sellers. Thank you.I literally just sprayed the inside and the outside of these boots put the boot stretchers in and stretch the crap out of them. Left them for a couple of hours. They seemed mostly dry. I took out one of the boot stretchers and put my foot in and holy guacamole. It was like night and day. The width is absolutely perfect now. So comfortable. The only part that's still a little bit tight is the instep and by instep I hope I'm calling a correctly. I mean the top of your foot. I have very high arch and so my instep is very steeply slanted and so it's always pressing up against the top side of the boots. Sometimes it's comfortable sometimes not.I resprayed these boots and put the stretchers back in with the instep stretching attachments that were included and I am expecting that after the second spray they're going to be perfect. I don't understand why the guy on beacon Hill doesn't have this same spray? I almost want to go over there and bring it to him and ask him why did he charge me more for the stretching he did then it cost me to buy both of these items and his stretching barely did anything?For the price that they're charging, I highly recommend that you pick this up. It can't hurt and worst case you're just left back where you started from but I can pretty much guarantee if it stretched out these boots. It's going to work on anything. These boots are very heavy, thick leather. Like I said, similar to doc Martin's, I wasn't even sure that it was able to stretch them because of the thickness and density of the material. It hasn't damaged the leather. It hasn't made any funny lines or creases. The leather is black. There's no hazing or anything on it.I highly recommend.

I just bought my second bottle. This stuff is a life saver. It works! I bought a nice pair of thigh high boots but, they were really tight on my feet. So after using this stuff for a month. I can now wear my boots without loosing the feeling in my toes. Definitely would recommend for anyone wanting to have more room in their shoes.

It worked in lieu with a shoe stretcher. Used it to stretch my bottega orbit sneakers

Dear FootMatters,I bought this spray because I just bought a pair of Thursday Loggers in Cacao and I normally wear a size 9.5 but these boots were not built on the same last as my other Thursday Captain boots. The Loggers were a bit snug around the forefoot while made it difficult to wear for long periods. Anything over an hour was getting uncomfortable and annoying. I had no other options but to try this solution and hope for the best. The Loggers I purchased was the most expensive pair of TBC boots at a little over $300 with tax. When I got the boot it seemed to fit ok so I’m not sure what happened but I could not wear these Loggers comfortably now. Annoyed and since I couldn’t exchange them because they were already worn outside and the boot has begun to crease. I love everything about these boot but I was left with no choice so I took a chance on this product and boy am I glad I did.The instructions were simple. Saturate the areas that is tight with the solution and then go walk around until the solution dries up. Repeat as necessary. I followed the instruction to the T. I sprayed the forefoot and the toe cap area with so much solution I could feel it damp on the inside of the leather. Then I put on the boots and went to ikea with my wife. We walked around for an hour and I could feel it working as my feet were not hurting. Right before I went to bed I sprayed the solution on the forefoot and toe cap and then I shoved my Cobblers Choice boot tree with a wool sock folded in half and I jammed it into my boots. Doing this made my troubled area extremely tight. When I woke up this morning I could tell that the forefoot and toe cap area has stretched because of the fact that I stuffed my boot tree into the boot with my wool socks folded in half. Out of curiosity I put the boots on and it was like I had a different boot altogether.Doing what I did really helped solve a major issue since I could no longer return the boot for a different size and to be frank, I didn’t want to because other than the forefoot area the rest of the boot was comfy. If I went with a larger size, sure, it’d give me more room but my foot would be floating in the boot. I didn’t really need 1/2 size larger. I only needed a small amount of room. I am super glad that I took a shot in the dark which paid off. I don’t know what’s in this solution but it helped out a lot. Now these are for sure my favorite boots.To be fair, if you have boots that are slightly too small then this solution I described would work well BUT you’re not going to be able to stretch your boot a lot. For example, I would not expect a pair of 9.5 boots/shoes to stretch to a 10 with this solution so please don’t try that. I mean I suppose that is possible if you tried hard enough but you’d be destroying the boot in the process because different size boots/shoes use different lasts(plastic mold of a boot or shoe) to make the boots/shoe. I suppose you could try it but I doubt it will work.Anyways, Thanks in advance! I hope this helps someone else too.

I didn’t end up using the spray because I was worried it might ruin my shoes. I bought this for my husbands red-bottoms and I was hesitant to try it on his leather so I decided not to risk it. If you're unsure, I'd recommend testing it on a small area first.