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Jules

Jules

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Who has shoelaces that don’t tend to come undone? Where did you buy them?

hollydolly said:
I've just been re-threading some of my trainers with elastic laces, which are less likely to come undone.....
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The only elastic laces that I’ve seen are the curlicue ones and DH doesn’t like those.

He does double knot them.
 

@Jules Now you can say that you started a thread on a shoelace!:unsure:

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These are the ones I've put in my trainers, @Jules... a little bit of a fiddle to get them on gotta cut them down to size, and fit the clips on, but now they're on they've essentially changed my lace-up trainers into slip ons, and very snug. I wore them the whole of last night going upstairs and down and on the treadmill and they didn't come loose...

@Aunt Bea , I had been looking at those one you posted in the video..( not necessarily the same brand ).. but on Amazon.. and there was quite a few reviewers complaining that after a few steps those plastic tag types snap... so I decided to go for the more elastic lace type in my link.. (y)
 
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Jules said:
Who has shoelaces that don’t tend to come undone? Where did you buy them?
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I've found they all 'tend to come undone'

In the mountains, I switched to paracord
.....and double knotted
Nothing worse than a boot lace coming undone when falling or bucking a tree
..or doing anything with a chainsaw

The paracord lasts longer than the shoes/boots
 
The flat ones seem to stay tied for me. The round ones on my hiking shoes I will sometimes double knot to avoid aggravation on a hike.
 
@Jules I learned to tie my shoestrings a different way and they've not come undone since. Before when I tied them, the bow tended to point toward my ankle and the toe of the shoe because of the way I was positioning the lace. When I began putting right side over left though, voila, the bow was straight from side to side, and never comes undone. It's worked with all types of laces. Here's the website where I learned the technique - https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm

I also received a set of these -

https://www.amazon.com/Xpand-Releas...ords=shoe+string+clamp&qid=1627788326&sr=8-10

through the VA but they're quite pricey to buy. That was what the podiatry tech told me as well but they work great. There also are some other, similar and less costly options here -

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=shoestring+clamp&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

I have a hard time bending over to re0tie my shoes so that they stay tied is a blessing for me. Good luck but just changing how you tie the laces may well fix things at no cost. Cheers!
 
Chris P Bacon said:
@Jules I learned to tie my shoestrings a different way and they've not come undone since. Before when I tied them, the bow tended to point toward my ankle and the toe of the shoe because of the way I was positioning the lace. When I began putting right side over left though, voila, the bow was straight from side to side, and never comes undone. It's worked with all types of laces. Here's the website where I learned the technique - https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm

I also received a set of these -

https://www.amazon.com/Xpand-Releas...ords=shoe+string+clamp&qid=1627788326&sr=8-10

through the VA but they're quite pricey to buy. That was what the podiatry tech told me as well but they work great. There also are some other, similar and less costly options here -

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=shoestring+clamp&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

I have a hard time bending over to re0tie my shoes so that they stay tied is a blessing for me. Good luck but just changing how you tie the laces may well fix things at no cost. Cheers!
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Thanks, Chris. Which one of those knots is the one you use?
 
Jules said:
Thanks, Chris. Which one of those knots is the one you use?
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I looked but now I'm not sure which it was. When my mom taught me to tie my shoes as a child, I couldn't get the hang of wrapping one string around the loop, all of that. So she taught me to make two loops, cross one over the other and tie them that way. On that site though I saw the reverse shoelace knot under variations. I always had looped left over right but when I went right over left, voila! That's worked for me. It's easier to see than it is to explain though.
 
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In my experience, laces like these were always the hardest to keep tied. They're kind of waxy, for the most part but they look great with shoes like these. Style is important! 😉
 
Jules said:
Who has shoelaces that don’t tend to come undone? Where did you buy them?
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Laces usually come untied from use of a Granny Knot. <--
The Square (Reef) Knot <-- is much better and stops that from happening.
I use Straight Bar <-- lacing for my cycling shoes to eliminate pressure points, then
shorten one end and tape the laces at the top (no tie) so the shoes are easy to slip on and off.
 

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