Bespoke Post January 2013: “Polished” – $45.00
For $45 per box, Bespoke Post will deliver to your door a “box of awesome” once a month. Inside you’ll find hand selected items curated for a guy like you. You can skip any box you want or cancel at any time. Click here for more.
Taking care of your shoes is a little like taking care of your skin. Some guys are really into it. And then there are those of us who throw a little goop on there every once in awhile and call it good. If you’re the latter*, the Bespoke Post box for this month might not be that intriguing. Same goes for those who already have an established collection of tools and goop creme or polish for their shoes.
But if you’re just starting out, or, you’re looking to upgrade from an old dime-store Kiwi shoe shine kit, then this setup might be a terrific value.
Catapulting your shoe shine routine to the next level.
Saphir is awfully well respected (Meltonian
Could you assemble a similar kit for the same price? Maybe, but it wouldn’t be Saphir’s high quality level stuff. The level of interest one would have for this box depends on whether or not you’re the type to use not just creme, but the leather treatment and wax every so often (creme = has pigments and offers some shine, leather treatment = conditions/cleans, wax = higher shine and adds a level of protection). If you’re into giving your shoes the full treatment, then this is a yes. Throw in the sweet cigar box you might get as nifty packaging/storage (nice work by the Bespoke Post design team) and you’ve got a far more luxurious kit than most of us started out with.
*(full honesty: as a creme-polish-every-once-in-awhile-and-that’s-it guy, I didn’t have the highest hopes for this box, but, I was pretty impressed when it showed.)
Enter here to win Bespoke Post’s “Polished” Box. One entry per person. Deadline for entry is 11:59 pm ET on 1/29/12.
UPDATE: Congrats to Nicholas F. who won this month’s Box of Awesome from Bespoke Post!
Someone give me a bespoke code and Ill get you $25. In return maybe someone will use mine. Make it quick though, I want to order before work. – https://www.bespokepost.com/r/4c21d4be
Here’s mine: https://www.bespokepost.com/r/86e312
I just used one of y’alls but can’t remember whose lol (whoops).
Anyway here’s mine: https://www.bespokepost.com/r/5f8e156a
Mine came in the other day. Top notch items, WELL worth the money!!
In on the sharing. Mine: https://www.bespokepost.com/r/976c3105
I went ahead and used one of yalls as well, here is mine if anyone wants to continue the love. Thanks.
https://www.bespokepost.com/r/3439e4a8
Oh man this would make my year!
Very impressed. Renovateur Friday, Cream Saturday, Wax Sunday. Shoes look fantastic.
The Renovateur alone would have sufficed, but the cream cleared up a few scratches and added wax for some protection against Chicago’s inclement weather.
2-3 Months ago I purchased about $30 worth of AE products (brushes, cream, wax) and was a bit hesitant to receive the Bespoke box. Glad I did. Products, specifically the wax, seem to perform better and are easier to work with, in my opinion.
Glad I’m not the only one in Chicago going through the tribulations of this past week’s weather.
I just used Chris’s. Here’s mine if anyone else wanst to share. https://www.bespokepost.com/r/cec19f5d
Whoa, does that cigar box come with some of the packages? I would absolutely love that to store all my shoe care supplies. Fingers crossed!
I posted about Saphir stuff a while ago, it’s incredible it can transform a pair of defunct shoes.
Keep um coming!! lol
It came with mine, so I assume it comes with all of them. It is very nice.
Aw yiss! That is very nice of them.
I’ve been rocking my JCP Stafford boots just to avoid all the salt, water, and mini-snow we had recently.
Sebago Hamiltons for myself.
nice, I’d love to win this!
Since I bashed F&O, let me balance it out and give credit to another small co that is actually terrific. I’ve gotten the last several boxes from Bespoke and all were terrific, including this one. Customer service also top notch.
I would enter, but I already have an excellent kit built up from when I was bootmaking. Also like you Joe I prefer Meltonian. The only thing extra needed would be a toothbrush for getting into very tight places and a set of cleaner and conditioner to use before polishing.