What's the deal with laces?

[coyote2425]

How do you rock your laces?

Bunny ears bouncing around all exposed to the world?

Do you tighten to your liking, knot on the inside and cut the extra?

Discuss.

[Atiba Applebum]

This was not a Seinfeldian riff like your topic title implied.  2/5 would not recommend

[Firebert]

Double Slip Knot of course

[beatifk]

[Mesteezo]

Bunny ears, double knot. Once they begin to rip I’ll slap a piece of gorilla tape over it to keep them protected.

[SneakySecrets]

 Very interesting topic!

[coyote2425]

Very interesting topic!

Someone has to ask the tough questions.

[flintstagram]

Bunny ears, double knot. Once they begin to rip I’ll slap a piece of gorilla tape over it to keep them protected.

This minus the whole gorilla tape thing. I let those shits rip, and then if necessary, I replace them. Pretty interesting stuff, I know.

[baustin]

If the laces are too long I’ll cut and singe, or double knot if they’re prone to coming untied. If they’re prone to ripping, I will dab some super glue on the vulnerable spots but try not to overdo it so as to not glue the laces in place and only add a layer of protection.

I wish brands would put more of their efforts towards durable laces or lace protection.

[SneakySecrets]

If the laces are too long I’ll cut and singe, or double knot if they’re prone to coming untied. If they’re prone to ripping, I will dab some super glue on the vulnerable spots but try not to overdo it so as to not glue the laces in place and only add a layer of protection.

I wish brands would put more of their efforts towards durable laces or lace protection.

I remember getting a pair of the Emerica Heath Kirchart 1’s and knowing that it would be almost impossible to rip a lace with all that armor over them.  From what I remember, they were pretty stiff, but god damn those things were tanks.

[MaitlandPrivado]

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If the laces are too long I’ll cut and singe, or double knot if they’re prone to coming untied. If they’re prone to ripping, I will dab some super glue on the vulnerable spots but try not to overdo it so as to not glue the laces in place and only add a layer of protection.

I wish brands would put more of their efforts towards durable laces or lace protection.

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I remember getting a pair of the Emerica Heath Kirchart 1’s and knowing that it would be almost impossible to rip a lace with all that armor over them.  From what I remember, they were pretty stiff, but god damn those things were tanks.

Maybe my favorite shoe of all time. Not the best skate shoe ever but man I loved these. I bought this colorway at the Tactics in Chino Hills in 2001.

[Chookilara]

reddit is cringe

[jimgrude]

Doesn't matter, 'cause they need to be replaced every session anyway.

[munchbox]

[Halwilkerson]

Tighten em up and slip them under the insole

[winnasoda]

How do you rock your laces?

Bunny ears bouncing around all exposed to the world?

Do you tighten to your liking, knot on the inside and cut the extra?

Discuss.

laceless figgys best shoe

[DarkPools]

Depends on the shoe but most I tie to the top lace hole if they’re low tops with the normal bunny ear loops hanging out. If they’re too long as I continually tie them tighter over time I usually take a lighter to shorten them. High top/Mids, I go second to the top lace hole and let em hang like the lows.

Such crucial information here..... lol

[CannerSpaghetti]

Tightened to all hell and then bunny ears. If they rip in a crucial spot, tie another knot in any way that makes it work, I once had half of the shoelace laced halfway up the shoe with bunny ears, and then laced the other half to the top also with bunny ears.

[johnes]

I usually tuck them in.
I used to like to lace my shoes bar style because I rarely saw other people do it. Then one day long ago slap roasted me for having bar laces and I switched back to normal cross lacing.
Recently a friend gave me some Dunks and GT blazers that he had bar laced and they looked so goofy now.
I switched them to cross lacing.
I usually have my laces pretty tight, which looks wack on puffy shoes which is what I mostly skate.
Accel OGs I can skate fine with the laces loose.
And the Globe Chet 4s im wearing now don’t even need laces because of the way the tongue is attached so I have those nice and loose.

[Paco Supreme]

If the laces are too long I’ll cut and singe, ill add a crimp to keep the ends nice and narrow for lace holes

I wish brands would put more of their efforts towards durable laces

The laces that come stock on Emericas are just shit, I have a drawer full of older vans pro laces I kept, once a shoe was fucked I’d take the goofy foot lace out that was still good and make that the regular foot lace on the new pair

[fulfillthedream]

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If the laces are too long I’ll cut and singe, or double knot if they’re prone to coming untied. If they’re prone to ripping, I will dab some super glue on the vulnerable spots but try not to overdo it so as to not glue the laces in place and only add a layer of protection.

I wish brands would put more of their efforts towards durable laces or lace protection.

[close]

I remember getting a pair of the Emerica Heath Kirchart 1’s and knowing that it would be almost impossible to rip a lace with all that armor over them.  From what I remember, they were pretty stiff, but god damn those things were tanks.

[close]

Maybe my favorite shoe of all time. Not the best skate shoe ever but man I loved these. I bought this colorway at the Tactics in Chino Hills in 2001.

i had the white ones and they lasted me a good 6-8 months

[Mcidraque]

Double Slip Knot of course

[hillbilly shifty]

someone awhile back brought up paracord for laces. so got 100' for $11 to give it a shot. holds up really well to abrasion.
i cut all of my laces in half and knot to hold at the toe eyelets. since that's an area most prone to breakage.
should start doing the superglue thing on the side stitches....

[jsettle]

nine club laces...laced

[Mbrimson88]

I do them up exactly the same in every pair of shoes, no folds or turns in the laces and all the normal cross over way, but if the laces are too long, I swap them out for shorter ones that don't end up hanging down the side of the shoe too much.

I also have very flat feet, so use an extra half cab tongue under most of my old skools, sk8 hi, or cut down ones under eras which help to bring the laces to a normal distance apart, but not appear puffy and do them up nice and tight so there is no foot movement inside the shoe.

Works a treat for me, but I know other people find it funny.

[MusclesMarinara]

My buddies always use to make fun of me cause I did the old school bunny ears and double knot. They always did it the cool way of tightening and slipping the laces into the shoes which never made sense to me. How is having laces in your shoes and walking on the laces comfortable at all?

Regardless I always remember their shoes flying off their feet skating or just running around outside and they never understood why the shoes didn't just stay on their feet, even after explaining trying to tie them correctly. Come to think of it, maybe my friends were/are just morons.

[IpathCats]

I have skinny feet and lace my shoes tight so I always have a lot of extra lace. On my front foot I take one of the lace ends, wrap it around the bundle of extra lace a couple times then put that end through my top inside eyelet. It's kinda tough to squeeze it through since there's already a lace through it, but this makes my extra lace bundle smaller, and keeps it to the inside of my foot so I don't trash my laces before the shoes are done. Looks pretty dumb when wearing shorts, but I don't really care.

[Mbrimson88]

I do remember when I would lace up shoes, I would sometimes make the lace end that was on the outside of the shoe shorter and the one on the inside longer, just so there was less lace getting the ollie abrasions in the rabbit ears too, which worked pretty well for most shoes I had.

I think there were only two pairs of shoes I had with the extra lace cover parts in the leather, but I do remember some people used to cut the stitching near the lace area, and thread the lace through the gap, so the leather would be on top and the lace would be through the lower part of the material, which worked.

A bit of super glue on the stitching and edge of the ollie side laces often did the trick when I could see the laces being torn.