Lacing is Key

You ever had the ill shoes but the lacing you wanted you couldn't figure out? I know when I was young I wanted to have the checkerboard lacing in my LA Gears - since it came with pink and white laces - but could not get the laces right.

Alas! I have found the ultimate lace guide. Ian Fieggen (aka Professor Shoelace), shoelace guru covers fun, fashion & science in his crazy site about shoelaces: www.shoe-lacing.com.

Sneakerfreaker.com posted 15 different ways, as laid out by the Professor, to tie em up. Nevertheless, what was most important to me... the checkerboard lattice!



How To:
1. Start with two pairs of different color laces, preferably the wide, flat variety.
2. With one color (orange in th diagram), lace the shoe using Straight (Easy) Lacing.
3. With the other color (red in the diagram), start at the bottom of the shoe and weave the lace in and out of the other lace until you reach the top.
4. Fold around the top lace and head back down, weaving out and in until you reach the bottom.
5. Continue across the shoe until you're out of room or out of lace, whichever comes first.
6. Tuck all the loose ends of the laces into the shoe.

Professor Shoelace says, "Whilst mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion methods of feeding a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe, this section presents a somewhat more realistic, typical cross-section of traditional and alternative lacing methods that I've either found or created or that have been sent to me by web site visitors." He lists 33 in the linked section.

Thanks Professor Shoelace!