Comments on: Rock the streets

Rock the streets

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:47:21 -0800

Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!

By: amyms

amyms — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:55:08 -0800

Oh, very cool. I've been wanting to re-create the stylized lacing techniques of my youth, just for shits and giggles, and that site has almost everything. Thanks, Blazecock Pileon!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:55:59 -0800

Ooooo! Aaaah! ** thinking about buying a pair of chuck taylors just to try some out **

By: chrominance

chrominance — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:01:36 -0800

This site is epic. Ever since I learned to tie my shoes, I'd always have to retie them over and over and over again whenever I wore shoes for any significant period of time, no matter how hard I pulled on the loops. And then one day I read this site, saw the page on slipping knots, and thought, "no way, that can't possibly be it." In the years since that fateful day, I've had to tie my shoe while walking on the street maybe once. That one page has saved me countless cries of "hey guys, wait up, I gotta tie my shoes!"

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:06:09 -0800

This rocks. From now on, I'm only reading shoelace related news.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:26:51 -0800

If you live in Japan, you'll find that the instances of taking off and putting on your shoes increase to hithertofore unimaginable numbers. As a 13 year resident, I've all but given up on lace shoes: slip-ons of one sort or another are really the way to go. Nonetheless, I'll bookmark this site for such a time as I ever move away from here.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:30:28 -0800

Aglets! That's what I was trying to remember.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:40:07 -0800

This post is missing the aglet and eyelet tabs.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:40:29 -0800

That comment is missing the correct spelling of "tag."

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:05:57 -0800

Previously. Looks like a new URL.

By: bwg

bwg — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:05:47 -0800

I love this site, been using it for years.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:51:46 -0800

I echo chrominance. It was Ian's site, and specifically this page, that taught me the invaluable ditty: Right over left, left over right, Makes a knot both tidy and tight. If I had learned that rhyme, oh, maybe twenty-five years ago, my childhood shoe-wearing career would have been much different.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:10:49 -0800

Ian certainly knows his laces.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:23:45 -0800

I have made a wonderful discovery, along the lines of vulcanized rubber. Concentrated cherry juice added to shoelaces and agitated for 3,000 miles in a sealed suitcase results in laces that, once tied, hold their bows neatly, and will never come untied without just the right amount of firm tugging.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:55:56 -0800

Huh, it seems that at 31 I enjoy relacing my shoes in a (slightly) fancy way as much as I did when I was ten. Why did I ever give up the lace experimentation? Two decades of wasted lacing opportunities!

By: netbros

netbros — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:26:07 -0800

The key to fashion these days is to see how unlaced you can get your shoes.

By: 0xFCAF

0xFCAF — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:33:55 -0800

A+++ would re-lace again

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:32:19 -0800

I ♥ this post! Thank you, BP!

By: gman

gman — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:19:57 -0800

I get SO pissed when my cheap ass dealer does this.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:02:14 -0800

Previously previously.

By: ook

ook — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:09:02 -0800

The "Ian knot" really is kind of magical; every time I tie my shoes with it I feel a combination of smug and hopelessly nerdy.

By: leftcoastbob

leftcoastbob — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:46:45 -0800

This guy is really concerned about helping us out--he even has a flipbook to make things easier for us non-mechanically minded.

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:16:26 -0800

I just learned the Ian Knot! I feel both smug and hopelessly nerdy. Thanks, ook (and BP). I only wish he had a necktie-tying guide. These instructions are so much clearer than any necktie-tying instructions I have tried.