You may have learned how to tie your shoelaces, but has anyone really shown you how to tie them? It’s a great way to personalize your shoes, especially if you buy shoelaces in different colors and patterns. The methods presented here are some of the most common ways to tie your shoes.
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Put a shoe in front of you with the toe facing you. From the two holes closest to you, insert each end of the shoelace from the inside. Make sure that the two remaining shoelaces are of equal length.
Pass all the laces diagonally. Insert the right end of the shoelace into the next left hole (up). You can also insert the shoelace from the outside of the hole to the inside (instead of inserting it from the inside to the outside), to give a neater appearance.
- Insert the left end of the shoelace into the next hole on the right .
- Keep intertwining them until you reach the ends.
- Make straight laces
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Take a shoelace. Place one end of the shoelace through the upper right hole (the end near the toes) and the other end through the lower left hole (toward the start of the shoe). The upper left hole should have enough length of laces to be able to tie a knot at the end.
Using the right end of the shoelace, insert it into the opposite hole, making a straight line.
Crisscross the laces. Lace your shoes using the previous method, but do not thread the laces through the last hole.
Take the left lace. Pass it through the last hole from the outside to the inside of the side where it is then do the same thing on the other side.
Take the right lace. Pass it under the left shoelace on the outside of the shoe (between the last and penultimate pass).
Take the left lace. Repeat the previous step.
Take a shoelace. Place one end of the lace in the first hole on the inside of the foot (i.e. the hole on the left closest to the ankle on a right shoe) and pull until there is about 15 centimeters of lace on the inside. outside.
- Pass it through the second hole on the outside of the foot, from the inside of the shoe to the outside.
- Now pass it through the second hole from the inside of the foot, from the outside of the shoe to the inside.
- Pass it through the fifth hole on the outside of the foot, from the inside of the shoe to the outside.
Then pass it through the third hole on the outside
Complete the operation. If you end up with a longer end of the shoelace on one side than the other, fold the extra length of shoelace, then put the folded end with the end of the shorter shoelace and slide the shoelace as shown on the procedure so that both ends are the same length.