A few months ago I made my own shoe polish from an Edwardian book. This month, I'm going to try it out!

Someone wanted a cockade fan in the style of Victorian mourning fans as a gift for a friend.

Hello darlings! I made a post in 2023 (has it really been that long??) on how to polish shoes the Edwardian way . I promised in that post that I would try making my own shoe polish one day and here I am- only two years later! This post is part of a two-part series. Next month, I'll be detailing how to use this shoe polish (or blacking) the proper Edwardian way. I wrote this blog post as a supplement to my YouTube video; I don't script my videos so sometimes I miss out on thin