How to Lace Formal Shoes
If you have to wear formal shoes to an event, there is a specific way to lace the shoes. Actually there are two different ways in which to lace formal shoes and neither are better, it just depends on which you prefer. There is the display loops that lace above the eyelets and then the crisscross loops that lace underneath the eyelets.
Display Lacing
- Start by inserting the end of the
shoelace directly at the top of the very bottom right eyelet. Next,
take the other end of the shoelace and put it through the top part
of the left bottom eyelet. - Pull both sides of the shoelace in
an upward motion and make sure they are even. Cross the left
shoelace to the right and then push the end through the top part of
the very next eyelet that is empty pulling it through the bottom.
Continue doing this on the right side and keep alternating until you
have laced all the eyelets. Then tie the shoelace into a bow.
Crisscross Lacing
- Start by taking one end of the
lace and put it under the bottom eyelet on the right. Take the other
end and put it under the eyelet on the left. - Take both ends of the shoelace and
pull tightly upward, making sure that both ends of the shoelace are
even with each other. - Next, take the left shoelace and
place it to the right and insert the end of the shoelace under next
eyelet and pull it through. Then do the same on the left side.
Continue this crisscrossing until you end up at the top of the
eyelets of the shoe. Lastly, tie the ends of the shoelaces into a
bow.