Statement Laces: Add a splash of color to your wingtips

[christian]

Yeah, putting pink shoelaces in cordovan bluchers is timeless; like Menudo.

[Justin@BlackOakVelo]

I really don't think anyone will think of racism when seeing your colored laces, unless maybe you have a shaved head and have red or white laces in your Docs. I don't want to offend anyone but I wouldn't think of it.

Wing tips are pretty inoffensive as a general rule. As are most dorky cyclists like we all are.

[jerk]

Red laces carry a very specific meaning in the racist skinhead movement.... Not sure if that is the message that you want to send out to the world.

that's white laces. red laces are normally SHARP skins or anarcho-commie skins of some non-racist bent....

[ElvisMerckx]

When judging fashion trends, I always fall back on something Chase said in a thread a while back that is absolutely genius. To paraphrase, 'Don't dress like a douche, dress like JFK.'

JFK would not wear fruity shoe-laces.

[cody.wms]

JFK would not wear fruity shoe-laces.

I wear fruity shoelaces in my longwings pretty often. Can we still be friends?

EDIT: I do this, but it has it's place. You need to be pretty far over on the casual scale to make it work. Usually an OCBD, and now, a sweater. I.e. don't wear a tie and colored laces. YMMV.

[chasea]

When judging fashion trends, I always fall back on something Chase said in a thread a while back that is absolutely genius. To paraphrase, 'Don't dress like a douche, dress like JFK.'

JFK would not wear fruity shoe-laces.

That was Caleb.
http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum...jfk-22730.html

Jackie-O said to take one thing off before you leave the house. Assuming most of you never went for the horrid fedora craze, that one thing would be your wacky shoelaces.

Also, why make it an extra PITA when it comes to your socks? They're better for showing a little color. And if you've gone crazy with the laces, you better have the correct clean pair of sock every goddamned day. Eff that noise.

[ElvisMerckx]

I wear fruity shoelaces in my longwings pretty often. Can we still be friends?

Cody, you're no Jack Kennedy! And I mean that in a good way, not in a Dan Quayle kinda way.

[jerk]

Hmm. Jackie-O said to take one thing off before you leave the house. Assuming most of you never went for the horrid fedora craze, that one thing would be your wacky shoelaces.

Also, why make it an extra PITA when it comes to your socks? They're better for showing a little color. And if you've gone crazy with the laces, you better have the correct clean pair of sock every goddamned day. Eff that noise.

if jfk were alive today he'd be sleeping with madonna.

fuck jfk- he dressed like a douche.

[jerk]

but fuck man- i drunkenly bought a vivienne westwood peacoat last night. i think it was part of her new jugalo collection.

[chasea]

i think it was part of her new jugalo collection.

I think you mean Betsey Johnson.

[jerk]

I think you mean Betsey Johnson.

i wasn't that drunk man.

[nahtnoj]

Let me just say that I think the shoes the OP posted aren't really kosher as business attire regardless of the lace color.

I think I will try to find a pair of green laces to wear in my black cap toes for Christmas. Why? Because it will make my four year old niece giggle.

[JoB]

Strange - growing up in Austria, red shoelaces were indicative of the other (leftie) side. the racist skinhead hools wore white laces.

Edit and on further review: What jerk said.

as a Jewish kid who grew up in a German town full of skinheads (Coburg, Germany...our local skinhead magazine was called Clockwork Orange), the red lace thing is always in the back of my mind. Those kind of things are all around and you generally don't notice them unless it possibly means getting the shit kicked out of you. wmsteoopaaffwc 14/88 etc.

Back on topic...

I do like the understated colors in those laces.

[jerk]

Strange - growing up in Austria, red shoelaces were indicative of the other (leftie) side. the racist skinhead hools wore white laces.

JoB-
that's the way it is everywhere. the only people who think red laces in combat boots means anything else are people who don't know any actual skinheads or their political leanings.

a racist skin with red laces would get his head bashed in by his "race brothers" after they mistook him for a communist.

many very good friends of mine are skins-some of whom jewish or black (but none are both)- most skinheads in today's day and age are not racist- most are violently and i use that term literally opposed to racism.

[Matthew Strongin]

JoB-
that's the way it is everywhere. the only people who think red laces in combat boots means anything else are people who don't know any actual skinheads or their political leanings.

a racist skin with red laces would get his head bashed in by his "race brothers" after they mistook him for a communist.

many very good friends of mine are skins-some of whom jewish or black (but none are both)- most skinheads in today's day and age are not racist- most are violently and i use that term literally opposed to racism.

This was my understanding as well. Strange that the southern poverty law center had defined it differently. Any experiences I ever had with a racist skins included white laces. As a jewish, shaved head (non-skin, but often confused) punk growing up, I had more encounters than I would have liked.

[maunahaole]

JoB-
that's the way it is everywhere. the only people who think red laces in combat boots means anything else are people who don't know any actual skinheads or their political leanings.

a racist skin with red laces would get his head bashed in by his "race brothers" after they mistook him for a communist.

many very good friends of mine are skins-some of whom jewish or black (but none are both)- most skinheads in today's day and age are not racist- most are violently and i use that term literally opposed to racism.

Maybe in your experience, not in mine.

[liv2bike]

Man. I guess if the pic I attached didn't have red laces, there is a chance none of this would have come up. So I guess if I don red laces I should be prepared to possibly get my butt kicked. Seems most colors have meaning. Since I won't be wearing combat boots and don't fit the skinhead profile, I will probably live if I decide to mix it up a bit...

[jerk]

This was my understanding as well. Strange that the southern poverty law center had defined it differently. Any experiences I ever had with a racist skins included white laces. As a jewish, shaved head (non-skin, but often confused) punk growing up, I had more encounters than I would have liked.

it's not like the splc has the resources to actively infiltrate hate groups and get hard data on the fashion trends of these fucking idiots.

it isn't a cohesive "movement"....i mean- i saw a guy i knew who was in the klan wearing a pair of michael jordans and a scotty pippen jersey once. people are stupid. a racist skin with red shoelaces is like one wearing a hammer and sickle t-shirt because he thinks it means something it doesn't.

back to wing tips- no one is going to accuse you of anything based on your wing tips- except maybe having bad taste in footwear.

[Matthew Strongin]

it isn't a cohesive "movement"....

Very true. Most of my encounters were with small groups of shitheads crashing punk shows to punch people in the pit along to music that stands for everything they hate. Far from a movement.

[jerk]

Very true. Most of my encounters were with small groups of shitheads crashing punk shows to punch people in the pit along to music that stands for everything they hate. Far from a movement.

some call it a scene, i call it disaster.