Shoe Trees...Why You Need Them and Does It Matter Which Ones?

Shoe trees are essential to keeping your shoes looking as new as possible, smelling as fresh as possible and retaining their shape. They really have three primary functions as mentioned above. How?

Ceder Shoe Trees help your shoes looking as new as possible by helping not only retain the natural shape of the shoe but assist in maintaining the shoes when polishing and moisturizing them with leather moisturizer. It makes it a lot easier to simply wipe the shoes and rub lotion or polish on them. Due to them being made out of cedar they also have a very pleasant cedar wood smell. This ends up odorizing your shoes with this great cedar smell while absorbing any moisture that can not only damage the leather but make your shoes smelly.

Left: Nordstrom Rack $12.50 Right: Golfsmith $4.95

There are two basic types of shoe trees, yes they're are more but we're getting into lasted shoe trees category. Pretty much you have the shoe trees where the front widens and usually have the hooked back and then you have the shoe trees where the front doesn't widen and the back is a handle. Personally I like the hooked ones but the ones with the handle still do the job really well.