One of the easiest ways I've found to clean suede boots or suede imitation is by using a vegetable brush! The bristles of the brush are hard enough to get off the bits of dirt and bits. Yet the brush is also soft enough as to not harm the suede. My boots came out of my packed away box a titch dirty. I think I must have walked through mulch or sawdust! It didn't even take me 5 minutes in total to have my boots looking tip top again. It took me longer to get my camera out and to take pictures of them! Just dry brush your shoes or boots outside or over the kitchen sink so you don't have more of a mess to clean up.