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How to shine your shoes and boots & why it is important

Whether it’s an upcoming job interview, your friend’s wedding, a graduation or another day of work, a pair of shiny shoes or boots can set you apart from the rest.  Why?

Taking care of your shoes or boots shows that you take good care of yourself.  Shined shoes or boots looks good but it is also a necessary part of properly caring for and maintaining a nice pair of leather shoes or boots. The polish itself helps moisturize and waterproof the leather, lengthening a shoes lifespan.

Estimated time to complete: 15-45 minutes

Requirments:
Tin of wax polish
Horsehair shine brush
Shoe polish brush to apply polish
Cotton ball or cotton pad
A shine cloth

Steps to shine your shoes or boots

Step 1: Find an old towel or newspaper to spread over the area you will be working on.  Shoe polish can get everywhere even when you’re being extremely careful.  It is difficult to get out of your carpet and clothes.

Step 2: Clean the dust and dirt off your boots with a horsehair shine brush or a damp towel or rag.  If your boots get a little wet, allow them time to dry before applying the polish.

Step 3: Cover the entire shoe with a generous amount of polish, using your shoe polish brush.  Be sure to match the color of the polish to your shoe as closely as possible.  Make sure you get down in the seams of the shoe and  cover evenly with polish.  An old toothbrush works well to get into tight spots and seams.  Wait 15 minutes for the polish to dry before proceeding to the next step.

Step 4: Brush the entire shoe using the horsehair shine brush.  You want to remove all of the excess polish.  At this point you want to see a small film on the shoes or boots.

Step 5: Dip a cotton ball or cotton pad into some water and squeeze out any excess moisture so it is damp, not dripping.  Then get a little polish on the damp cotton.  Next, apply the polish on the toe and heel of the shoe or boot using small circular motions.  This will take a little bit of time but is well worth it!

Step 6: Repeat Step 5 until you are satisfied with the level of shine.  Use a new piece of cotton each time and to remove all excess polish before applying a new coating.  The initial shine is the hardest.

Step 7: Buff to a gleaming shine with a clean cotton cloth, such as an old sweat sock or  T-shirt.

Additional info and tips:
Don’t polish suede, roughout or patent leather.
‘Instant’ shoe polishes typically do not last and can damage the shoe or boot leather.
Don’t try to use black polish to change the color of brown leather. If you want  to do this, hire a professional shoemaker to dye the shoes.

A shoe/boot shine kit can be purchased today to get you started.  Click here to purchase

Elbeco Ufx Performance Tactical Short Sleeve Polo Shirt Free Giveaway

This performance polyester polo features Xeede™ technology for 4-way stretch and mobility. It includes permanent moisture wicking, anti-microbial nanotechnology to reduce odor-causing bacteria, and UV 40+ protection. Soft to the skin, it maintains excellent durability and color fastness through multiple washings.

                                            

 

 

Fabric: Our permanent antimicrobial technology is applied at the fiber level to reduce bacteria that causes odor over time. It provides excellent durability through multiple washings, a; UV 40+ protection protects you from the sun and prevents uniform from fading, Fabric: 100% microfiber knit, Weight: 7.25 oz/sq yd, Machine washable,
Weight: Weight: 7.25 oz/sq yd
Care: Machine washable

Features:

• Available in short and long sleeve with hidden pen pocket on sleeve for easy access
• Hidden pen pocket on sleeve for easy access
• Extra-long body with side gusset panels for improved fit and mobility
• Dual hidden mic shoulder pockets and center mic loop so you can place your mic where you want it
• Tagless neck for no-scratch comfort; no-curl knit collar with collar stays for a professional appearance
• Lycra / rib knit cuff keeps your sleeves at your wrists (long sleeve only)
• Comfort cut allows for wear over body armor
• Melamine high impact buttons
• Optional embroidery available

Our January Giveaway will be announced January 31, 2012.  The Monthly Giveaway will be an Elbeco Ufx Performance Tactical Short Sleeve Polo Shirt. 
* Just Like UniformSpec on Facebook to be entered for your chance to win our Monthly Giveaways!

Time to support local businesses…

SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES.

1.  Local Character and Prosperity

In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character have an economic advantage.

2.  Community Well-Being

Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.

3. Local Decision-Making

Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

4.  Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy

Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.

5.  Job and Wages

Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.

6.  Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

7.  Public Benefits and Costs

Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.

8.  Environmental Sustainability

Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

9.  Competition

A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

10.  Product Diversity

A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.

Monthly Giveaway: Elbeco T2 Long Sleeve Shirt for Men and Ladies

The giveaway will be announced October 31, 2011.  In order to be automatically entered,
you must be a fan of UniformSpec on Facebook.  If you are not on Facebook,
someone you know can.  Must be a family member.  The shirt cannot be customized to
department uniformspec without proper identification.
McDonald Uniforms, Elbeco and UniformSpec are highly
committed to the safety of our surroundings.
Therefore, shirt will only be given to First Responder.  

ENTER GIVEAWAY 

McDonald Uniforms is happy to announce the October, 2011 Monthly Giveaway.  The September giveaway was a Bates Ultra Lites Boot and was won by a great guy, Bud Baughman.

This month’s giveaway is the future of Uniform Shirts.  The Elbeco T2 Shirt (available in Long and Short Sleeve, Men’s and Ladies) has so much to offer!  As the winner of the giveaway, you will have the choice of color, size and gender!!!  We will even customize it to your liking for FREE!

PCN Tours Visits Elbeco Shirt Factory

Check out how Uniform Shirts are manufacturer in Pennsylvania’s Shirt Factory by Elbeco.

Great way to see every operation step that goes into a shirt.

Check Viewing Time at http://www.pcntv.com/programming/non-public-affairs-programming/pcn-tours/pcn-tours-heads-to-frackville

 

 

 

 

Winner of UniformSpec’s First Monthly Giveaway is…

Congratulations to Bud Baughman!  
He will receive a Free Pair of Bates Ultra Lights #2262

UniformSpec September Giveaway

The next winner will be announced October 31, 2011.  The giveaway will be announced later this week.  Check back soon!

Philadelphia Area 9/11 Memorial Events

These are just some of the memorial services going on in the Philadelphia Area:

Brooklawn 9/11 Commemoration
Brooklawn Memorial Park
S. Hannevig & Maude Ave.
Brooklawn, NJ
www.brooklawn.us
All day

Brooklawn broke ground on its new 9/11 memorial and monument in July, and on Sept. 11th–the 10th anniversary of the event–the town will unveil both items during a day of 9/11 remembrance. The day will begin with the ringing of the bells at the times when the WTC towers and the pentagon were attacked, and when Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania. There will be commemorative events all day long, ending with a candlelight vigil.

9/11 Memorial Service
Presbyterian Church – Deep Run
16 Irish Meetinghouse Rd.
Perkasie, Pa.
6 p.m.

Join the church community for an evening of poetry and prayers to remember the 9/11 attacks.

Travis Manion Foundation 9-11 Heroes Run
Various locations in the Greater Philadelphia Area
www.911heroesrun.com

The Travis Manion Foundation is teaming up with GM and Chevrolet to bring this year’s 5K runs to more than two dozen cities across the country to honor military, police, firefighters, and first responders killed in the line of duty. The organization is named for Doylestown’s Travis Manion, a US Marine who was killed in Iraq four years ago. Michael Smerconish will participate in the Doylestown run, and 98.1 WOGL’s Frank Lewis and Dom Giordano will broadcast from the September 11 race in Collingswood, New Jersey.

Philadelphia Firefighters & Paramedics Union Local 22 9/11 Memorial Dedication
415 N. 5th St.
Philadelphia, Pa.
www.iaff22.org

12:30pm

Local 22 will celebrate Firefighter Recognition Day and remember 9/11 with a memorial and plaque dedication.
* We are happy to inform you that Dan McDonald, owner of McDonald Uniforms, will be recognizing a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department.

9/11 Concert For Change & ChurchFest

Ridge Avenue United Methodist Church
7811 Ridge Ave.
Philadelphia, Pa.
www.ridgeaveumc.org
7 p.m.

The Concert for Change will focus on shedding positive light on the tragedy of 9/11 and on creating a tight-knit, supportive community. The church’s Light Praise Band will perform, featuring local musicians including Pat Burke, Tom Stone, Zack Stone, Lee Gordon, Tim Mitchell, Deb Santo, Rachel Brown and music director Scott Santo. There will be moments reflecting on the anniversary of the attacks of 9/11. Additionally, the Church will host ChurchFest, a day of free food, music, games and crafts. All proceeds from the event benefit the United Methodist Church’s Imagine No Malaria campaign. In case of rain, the event will take place in the church sanctuary.

Candlelight vigil at The Garden of Reflection
7:30 p.m.
Lower Makefield, Bucks County
2,973 candles were made in remembrance for all those we lost. A vigil gives us a chance to pray for a loved one, but more practically to show they are never alone. Please join us to light a candle, say a prayer and remember.

Annual Remembrance Ceremony
8:30 a.m.
Garden of Reflection
Memorial Park
1950 Woodside Road
Yardley, Pa.
On the morning of Sept. 11, the Garden of Reflection’s memorial ceremony will begin 8:46 a.m. with the ringing of a fire bell marking the chronological events when the four attacks took place. Interfaith prayers will be offered by religious leaders after each moment is remembered. Names of Bucks County’s victims will be read while a flower is placed. A presentation of our Memorial Wreath to honor all 2973 victims of the attacks will be laid concluding our ceremony at approximately 10:10 a.m.

Day of Remembrance Fireman’s Tribute Walk
9:30 a.m.-noon
Fireman’s Hall Museum
Second and Quarry Street
Firefighters, police officers, city officials, veterans, and others will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, “Attack on America.” This event will include a march from the Fireman’s Hall Museum at Second and Quarry streets to the Betsy Ross House at Third and Arch streets. A program of commemoration will take place with guest speakers, a special flag folding ceremony, playing of “Taps,” and a bell tolling in memorial for fallen firefighters.

National Day of Remembrance Civic Engagement Expo
2-5 p.m.
Independence Mall
Nonprofits from throughout the Philadelphia region are invited to host information tables showcasing their ongoing volunteer opportunities. In previous years, organizations that participated in the civic engagement expo recruited more than 400 volunteers. The Civic Engagement Expo is a part of a larger effort to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Throughout the day, other activities will take place on Independence Mall and in nearby venues, ensuring a large turnout of potential volunteers. The day will conclude with a public ceremony featuring Mayor Michael Nutter and special guests.

Interfaith Prayer Gathering
4 p.m.
Arch Street Friends Meeting House
Fourth and Arch streets
Please join the Religious Leaders Council of Greater Philadelphia for a prayer gathering of memory and hope on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Commemorative Ceremony at Independence Mall
5:30-7 p.m.
Independence Mall
At Sixth Street between Chestnut and Market
Join Mayor Michael Nutter and members of the Philadelphia community as they pay tribute to the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.

Team Red White and Blue Moving Tribute
8:30 a.m.
No matter where you’re going to be on Sunday, please join Team Red, White & Blue and make a “moving tribute” to honor those lost on 9/11, the servicemen and women who have been killed or wounded since 9/11 — and all their families. By committing to walk, run, bike or hike on Sept. 11, we are carving out time on this 10th anniversary to reflect upon the tremendous sacrifice so many Americans have made. Team RWB has people from all over the world, including soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, who are joining us in our mission to honor and remember. We encourage you to spread the word and make this tribute in groups, and where possible to meet at 8:30 a.m. to hold a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. — when the North Tower was first attacked.

Penn Museum Presents 
Memorial Display and
Related Programming
Sept. 11 — An Afternoon
Remembrance
Ten years to the day that two hijacked planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, Penn Museum marks the solemn occasion with two special programs Sept. 11, and one Oct. 12 — and a powerful display, Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11, on view through Nov. 6, 2011. The program and the display offer visitors a timely opportunity to remember — and reflect anew. On Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, Penn Museum offers pay-what-you-want admission.

New Elbeco T2 Shirts

We searched the globe to find this great 18% stretch poly/cotton twill fabric for our T2 Shirt. You won’t want to take it off. Nano Moisture Wicking technology with soil release permanently pulls perspiration away from your skin and spreads it over the fabric surface area for quick evaporation, leaving you dry and comfortable. The built-in soil release allows stains to be washed out easily. Add our Flex Underarm Vent, Dual Comm wire access openings, tagless neck and variety of styles and sizes and you have a shirt that is soon-to-be your favorite! Pair with Tek2 Trousers for a complete, professional uniform look.

• 70% Polyester / 30% Cotton 18% Permanent Stretch Comfort Twill
• Dual Comm wire access openings in side seams keep wires out of the way
• Patent-pending Flex Underarm Vent allows for body heat ventilation and increased mobility
• Tagless neck for no-scratch comfort
• Seven-button false-button front placket with 14-inch hidden zipper
• Two pleated pockets with scalloped flaps, hook and loop closure, non-functional button and pen opening in left pocket and pocket flap
• Optional mic loop and badge tab
• Cross-stitched shoulder straps
• Stitched-in creases for a classic military look
• Top-fused convertible collar
• Internal collar stays
• Double-ply straight yoke
• Single-needle detailing for tailored professional appearance
• Melamine high impact buttons
• Midnight Navy T2 Shirt matches the Tek2 Midnight Navy Trouser
• Machine washable

CALL Dan at 800-426-3291 ext 2228 or email at info@uniformspec.com