Lacing Up My Chucks

I just bought a pair of Converse Chucks. Isn't it amazing how stuff you wore as a teenager eventually, decades later, becomes trendy again? Of course, now that I've leaped onto the bandwagon, again, these sneakers are, by definition, no longer trendy, just mainstream.

Sneakers

Anyway, I suspected there were cool and uncool ways to lace up these shoes. So I googled "how to lace up converse" and came up with 983,000 results covering a vast Internet-wide sea of shoe lacing advice, pictures, debate and opportunities to spend more money. I already bought mine, thank you. For $24.99! Soft Moc found me in their computer and gave me a big discount for being a repeat customer. Yes!!

I settled on Ian's Shoelace Site and picked the classic Criss Cross Lacing technique (with a bit of a Over Under variation in the beginning to make it more interesting) being careful to make sure the lace coming from the outside of the shoe (e.g., from the left on my left shoe) crosses over the lace coming from the inside. I may change my mind and switch to all Over Under Lacing but for now this technique works for me.

Brilliant.

I wonder if my new orthotics will work in these shoes?