Why are my new shoes turning blue?

Hi today I wore my new shoes for the first time but after 4 hours of walking around town they're starting to turn blue?!

Here's a link showing them

http://www.barratts.co.uk/p/80_120_0525/Radcliffe.html

I don't understand why there are some blue patches on them, do you think I could get a refund or something? It's definetly not dirt the blue patches.

Many thanks!

Reply 1

F1 fanatic

16

swifty

Hi today I wore my new shoes for the first time but after 4 hours of walking around town they're starting to turn blue?!

Here's a link showing them

http://www.barratts.co.uk/p/80_120_0525/Radcliffe.html

I don't understand why there are some blue patches on them, do you think I could get a refund or something? It's definetly not dirt the blue patches.

Many thanks!

Couple of possibilities, first is that you walked through blue paint or something, but Id hav thought you'd have noticed and would be on the soles.

Another possibility is that the white dye/ paint has worn away exposing a blue layer that was underneath. In this case its probably worth enquiring about a refund if they are brand new. Want you don't ask you won't get.

Reply 2

Enchanté

14

Did you walk through something without realising.
If not take them back I suppose and querie therm :smile:

Reply 3

sophisti_kate

if the thread is blue, the dye might have run...

Reply 4

swifty

OP

Lol i definitely definetly didn't step on blue paint! I'm always really careful watching over what I walk on, in particular in new shoes!

Reply 5

Mama Sita

2

have you been wearing jeans?

Reply 6

swifty

OP

Yeah i don't think that would affect it?

Reply 7

F1 fanatic

16

swifty

Yeah i don't think that would affect it?

Well what harm can it do taking them back and asking if they could be replaced? :smile:

Reply 8

Ludo

1

swifty

Yeah i don't think that would affect it?

In case your jeans dyes have ran onto them, if it has rained etc.

Reply 9

swifty

OP

Cheers! I certainly will go back and ask to change them!

Reply 10

Brotherhood

16

Jeans can turn trainers/shoes blue, believe me.

Reply 11

Chris.

1

Will probably be from you having worn jeans, can happen easily.

Reply 12

L i b

19

Yes, the jeans running situation happened to me...

...although it did involve a foam fight...

Reply 13

NJA

20

Well, you can knock me down,
Step in my face,
Slander my name
All over the place.

Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Don’t you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.

Reply 14

Peter88

Jeans have stained mine before

Reply 15

_EMMA_

16

Brotherhood

Jeans can turn trainers/shoes blue, believe me.

i had the same thought, especially when it is raining or wet outside. has happend to me as well.

Reply 16

Aeris

15

The same thing is happening to my white shoes. I bought them at a small store in London and I don't know why they're changing colors. I really do think my blue jeans might have something to do with it. :afraid:

Copper oxidising?

definately the jeans. however, i'd take those shoes back simply because they're awful! :tongue:

Reply 19

Revd. Mike

17

Ferrus

Copper oxidising?

Lol, that'd be anywhere from pinkish to brick red to green.

My brother lent me a pair of black loafers once, because mine were being repaired. It was a rainy day. I went out, and about 15 minutes later, I saw them turning patchy blue, and within a few more minutes they were completely blue, comewhere between navy/cobalt and prussian. When I got home and asked my brother, he told me that he bought the shoes in a sale, not realising they were blue, and had then simply coloured over them with black scuff remover. D'oh!

Why are my new shoes turning blue?

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