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Bull polished drill boots. Bulling, Bull polishing, spit polishing, mirror shining or spit shining refers to a method for polishing leather products, usually leather dress shoes or boots, to give an extremely high shine effect. The finished effect should leave the surface of the leather highly reflective, similar to a patent leather finish. In ...
An open can of shoe polish with a side-mounted opening mechanism visible at the top of the photo. Shoe polish, also known as boot polish and shoeshine, is a waxy paste, cream, or liquid that is used to polish, shine, and waterproof leather shoes or boots to extend the footwear's lifespan and restore its appearance.
Shoeshiner or boot polisher is an occupation in which a person cleans and buffs shoes and then applies a waxy paste to give a shiny appearance and a protective coating. They are often known as shoeshine boys because the job was traditionally done by a male child.
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‘Unassuming and gracious way’ According to the 2013 feature story on Walker, he shined his first shoe at age 14 when he had a summer job at Frank’s Shoe Repair on Main Street in the mid-1950s.
Shinola" was a trade name and trademark for boot polish. [ A ] The suffix -ola is a popular component of trade names in the United States. [ B ] It was popular during the first half of the 20th century and entered the American lexicon in the phrase , "You don't know shit from Shinola ," meaning to be ignorant.
Riding boot from 1910–1920s. An early reference to patent leather is in the 1793 British periodical The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, which notes, in an article entitled "Hand's patent leather", that "a gentleman of the name of Hand" in Birmingham, England, obtained a patent for preparing flexible leather having a glaze and polish that renders it impervious to water and need only be ...