I'm fairly new to dancing and didn't know such a thing existed to clean my dancing shoes until I saw someone use one. What an important tool to have! This took my suede shoe bottoms almost back to new with minimal effort. It comes with lots of different sides/shapes, and I'm not really sure what order I'm "supposed" to use them. I just scrub away until the bottoms look like new again - just a couple minutes per shoe. I found the short bristles and the long bristles to be the most effective - these are on opposite sides from each other, and are the largest sections of the brush head. The short bristles are made from rubber, and the long ones are more brush-like (nylon?). I ended up using the short ones for the heavy scrubbing and the long ones for the finishing. That seemed to work the best.