I bought some lovely black leather boots in Jones last year, but they have grey rubber (crepe?) wedge soles/heels and have worn through at the heel allowing wet to get in as well as small stones which subsequently rattle when I walk! I would love to be able to repair them as apart from this problem they have plenty of life left in them and were not cheap to buy. I would be grateful for any hints or ideas on bow to fix them.

hilary, October 2007

Afraid that I gave you the wrong information in my previous answer. The product that might help you is a rubber repair mastic called Bison, not marathon as I previously said, and this can be obtained from choiceful.com by mail order

richard, November 2007

There is a compound called Marathon which is easy to use and would cure the problem, this product can also be used to remake a form of tread on the heel.

Richard, November 2007