How to stop sneakers from yellowing?

Unfortunately, some shoes you can’t avoid them from yellowing or discoloring. It just depends on the fabric or material used on the shoe, and certain fabric/material will start to yellow, fade, or crack once it’s worn. However, here’s some tips to help prevent this from happening to your shoes. Before we start let’s point out the fact that vintage shoes are really old, and in most cases have been sitting in a hot store or basement. Therefore, the shoes fabric/material over a long period of time will naturally start to fade or turn yellow.

In some cases the shoe hasn’t had any air in years, and if you notice on the older models the boxes didn’t come with holes for air to flow like the newer boxes today. As a result the shoe may fall apart or crack very badly when wearing the shoe. In many cases it’s hard to stop this on vintage/older shoes, and that’s why some people don’t wear them, they just collect them. With that being said ,let’s talk about how to help prevent this on your newer models. Here’s some pretty popular steps.

1.) Keep the shoes stored in an AC controlled or room temp area. If possible, keep shoes stored in a dark cool place away from light.

2.) You can wrap the shoes in cellophane wrap (Glad, Saran) or shrink wrap. This will help them from turning colors, and shoes get dirty or fade easily from people touching the shoes all the time. Shrink wrap is good for collecting or display purposes.

3.) The famous Deep Freezer bags keep shoes fresh and this method is very popular in the "Shoe Game". You can also add a few silica packs in the bag

4.) Speaking of silica packs you could buy a bag of 50 for around $8 on eBay. If you’re one of those people that’s kinda tight with the cash, and you don’t wanna spend $8. You can find these packs for FREE just about anywhere, these are the same packs that come with almost everything. There purpose is to keep the moisture out!

Remember these are just some tips to help prevent yellowing/fading. Depending on the shoe and it’s material/fabric this may or may not help, but for most shoes this will help.