1 Mistake Ruins Expensive Shoe Look? | Dress Shoes Laced Incorrectly? | Straight Lace Video Tutorial

About this video

Centeno teaches the technique of straight lacing dress shoes as an alternative to cross lacing. He explains that straight lacing creates a cleaner, more formal aesthetic that better showcases the leather quality of dress shoes, and walks through the step-by-step process of properly threading and tightening the laces.

Key takeaways

• Centeno argues that cross lacing is too casual for dress shoes because it makes the upper appear busy and obscures the leather craftsmanship
• Centeno recommends straight lacing for dress shoes as it produces a cleaner, more formal appearance and highlights the shoe’s upper quality
• Centeno teaches a specific lacing technique: alternating laces from one side to the other, ensuring both ends remain equal length, and finishing through the top holes

Episode details: published July 31, 2016 · 193K views · 2:23 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style advice summarized here is Antonio Centeno’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are his, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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