Shoestrings for J Crew shoes?

churchman73 · Post by **churchman73** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:24 pm

What type of shoestrings do I need for the J Crew boots to make them screen accurate? Thanks

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Indiana G · Post by **Indiana G** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:45 pm

the ones that come with the aldens now are flat dark brown laces approx 4 to 5 mm wide and about 50" or so long.

it has been debated that the original raiders boots had round laces i believe. perhaps do a search for "aldens and laces" and see what pops up.

cheers

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:40 pm

Ya know, when you're wearing your pants, they will cover up the laces and no one but you will know the difference. I left the construction boot looking laces on my J. Crew vintage work boots, and it doesn't bug me.

matt1466 · Post by **matt1466** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:42 am

I found some flat brown laces at the local grocery store of all places. They're made by Kiwi, the shoe polish company, and are 45" long. Cost $1.49. Could be a little wider than the Alden laces but no one will ever notice.

It's getting harder and harder to find the flat laces.

Matt

Indiana G · Post by **Indiana G** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:06 pm

i snapped my initial set of laces on the aldens and also the spare laces. i went looking for a substitute and i could find the right length but not the right width. it was a little more difficult getting them to tuck into the lace claws with the wider lace but in the end it wasn't too bad.

i didn't care much for the substitute laces so i found a store here that sold aldens and they gave me two pairs of alden 405 laces for free.

whew....almost had to buy another pair