How to Wear Laceless Shoes

Shoe laces help keep the shoe in place and grip the foot, but they also affect your style a lot. Don’t worry too much—you can hide your shoelaces in many simple and convenient ways. With a few ways below, you still have to tie a simple bow or knot, but the two ends of the shoelaces are neatly hidden.

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Step on shoelaces

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Put the shoelaces under the tongues and step on them. First, you will lacing your shoes in the default fashion, releasing the two ends of the laces untied. Don’t tie your shoelaces together—instead, tuck them under the tongue of your shoe so they don’t get in the way and cause you to trip when you’re out and about. Then you will put on your shoes, your feet will step on the shoelaces and hold them in place. ^{[1] X Research Source}

This will help the shoes stay in place and the shoelaces will not easily come off.

Loosen shoelaces

Hold the shoelace along the width of the tongue. You will gently pull them loose, at this time the two ends of the shoelaces will become shorter and shorter. You will continue to pull like this until the two ends of the shoelace are only about 2.5 to 5 cm long. At this point, you should be able to put your shoes on easily. ^{[2] X Research Source}

You don’t have to hide the ends of your shoelaces—they’re short enough and don’t get in the way anymore.

Cut off the excess wire

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You will wear the shoelaces a little loosely and trim the excess. Leave the cord at least 2.5 to 5 cm long and discard the freshly cut excess. In order for the newly cut wire to not slip, put a little glue on the elephant and wait for the glue to dry before using. When the glue on the ends of the shoelaces dries, you can put your shoes on! ^{[3] X Research Sources}

You can also order heat shrink tubing online to wrap the ends of your shoelaces.

Tie shoelaces to the sides

Tie two separate shoelaces if your shoes are a bit wide. You will take the right shoelace, which now sticks out from the right eyelet, tie a simple knot on the outside of the eyelet, leaving about 2.5 to 5cm of the lace tip sticking out. You will do the same with the left shoelace and the two shoelaces on the other shoe. ^{[4] X Research Sources}

This method requires you to “tie” the shoelaces, but you will tie them separately, not together.

Hide shoelaces under the tongue

Tie two shoelaces into a bow. Thread this bow under the tongue to make it disappear. With this approach, you’ll basically still tie your shoelaces, but it will look like they weren’t tied! ^{[5] X Research Sources}

Cross the laces and hide the end when finished

You will cross the laces and skip one eyelet. First, thread the shoelaces through the two eyelets at the bottom. Next, thread the right end of the string into the third eyelet on the left. Do the same with the left end of the shoelace, inserting it into the third eyelet on the right. Continue crosswise all the way to the end, remembering to have one eyelet on each side. When you’re done, you’ll tie two shoelaces under the tongue so no one can see them. ^{[6] X Research Sources}

Lace-up shoes

You will point the toe of the shoe forward and insert the ends of the shoelaces into the two lowest eyelets. Then, holding the right end of the string, skipping the first eyelet, thread it through the second eyelet from the bottom. Next, you will pass the left end of the string through the first eyelet from the bottom, continuing to cross it to form a horizontal line. Continue doing the same with the right end to form a second horizontal line. Continue this way of threading until the end of the reed to form a “ladder” with horizontal steps that follow the reed. Tie the two shoelaces together under the tongue so others can’t see them. ^{[7] X Research Sources}

You’ll be tying shoelaces but it doesn’t look like that at all!

Advice

If your shoelaces are very long, you can wear them twice to make them less entangled. ^{[8] X Research Sources}

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