Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I was at school, the Sunday night ritual of popping open a tin of Kiwi shoe polish and slowly breaking that ...

But did you know the product was founded by an Essendon family? The story of the Ramsay family, who migrated from Scotland in the late 1800s, has been chronicled in a book titled Kiwi, The Australian ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Forty years ago Fergus Ramsay was on holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru, when he spied a shopkeeper using an Australian shoe polish, ...

I don't suppose five in a hundred folks today polish their shoes.As a 3 year old as I was,Uncle Albert, fresh from Nazi Germany instilled in me the ways of spit-polishing his low quarters (shoes.)It ...

You've likely heard the term New Zealander referring to people living in the island nation east of Australia. However, they often go by the name Kiwi as well. If you're curious where the moniker comes ...

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It's that time of year to rediscover last season's dusty boots buried somewhere in the back of our closets. If yours are like mine, they are much in need of a reincarnation. Not only are those boots ...

For a true insight into the state of the nation, look no further than the decline in shining our shoe leather There’s hope yet: King Charles on a visit to Gray’s ...

A popular brand has announced it will stop selling its products in the UK. Kiwi, a well-known brand of shoe polish, has confirmed that dwindling sales means it will no longer sell in the UK. The ...