The RIGHT Way to Lace & Tie Your Dress Shoes!

About this video

The Gentleman’s Gazette team provides a comprehensive guide to properly lacing and tying dress shoes. They cover selecting appropriate laces by color, width, and material, demonstrate various lacing methods including straight bar and cross lacing techniques for Oxford and Derby shoes, and teach several knot styles with emphasis on the Berluti knot for durability and appearance.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team argues that lace selection significantly impacts a shoe’s formality—thinner, round, flat laces appear more formal than thick round ones, and lace color should generally match the shoe for formal occasions or coordinate with other outfit elements for casual wear
• The Gazette team recommends straight bar lacing for Oxford shoes as the most elegant method, with the option to cross laces lower on the shoe to avoid visible V-shapes on the vamp
• The Gazette team teaches the Berluti knot as superior to basic knots because it stays centered at a 90-degree angle to the shoe’s length throughout the day and resists coming undone, though it requires practice
• The Gazette team demonstrates that lace techniques and knot execution affect both aesthetics and practicality—a well-executed knot should be tight enough to stay secure but easy to untie

Episode details: published May 17, 2021 · 395K views · 26:31 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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