Statement Laces: Add a splash of color to your wingtips

[liv2bike]

Bad idea? Inexpensive way to spice things up. Maybe match laces to tie? We wear fancy socks, at least I do. We use pocket squares to add color. Why not let our laces add some color instead of always being brown or black. Or is it tacky and in bad taste? Not sayin I would lace up my black wingtips with red laces for a board meeting or anything but maybe on the weekend to mix things up. These guys below make some colorful laces. They even dress up the aglets. What say you ladies and gentlemen? Personally I am on the fence.

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[maunahaole]

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.

[liv2bike]

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.

Since I have zero affiliation with the racist skinhead movement, I had no clue red laces indicated anything other than someone trying to add color to their shoes. Someone better tell Allen Edmonds that. Those shoes are on their website. Is there no longer anything just innocent in this world anymore? So no, that is obviously not the message I am trying to send. Sorry if you or anyone else took it that way. I thought my original post was pretty clear and I was just trying to get others thoughts on different color shoelaces. In no way intended what you have implied. Just keep it light.

[rowdyhillrambler]

So does shaving your head, however, i wouldnt assume anyone on here with a shaved head would be part of that movement.

liv2bike, i wouldnt think that anyone would "take it that way". However, i am the side of the fence that says "meh, prolly not for me"

[RickM]

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.

Damn...and I was struggling with lugged soles on wingtips! I use socks to inject some color down there when the occasion warrants. The laces thing may work for a younger guy...but not this old geezer.

[maunahaole]

I did not take it that way at all. Carry on.

[christian]

No. Men's style is not ironic.

[chasea]

I'll kill this one right now. You're not going to be changing your laces on the weekend. You just aren't.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[TACSTS]

I was in Paris last month and the colored laces in wing tips was a huge trend for men there it seemed. Most matched their shirt and laces

[davids]

Like the jerk said, people are stupid.