Was it during a movement? Or did it result in one?
But what if you just like red?
Yeah, imagine my surprise many years ago when I discovered that I oughtn’t keep my black hanky in my back right pocket.
I think everyone who owns a pair of Docs should go out an put red laces in their boots. Everyone. We need to take back the red laces!
Not come across it in England, though admittedly I don’t know many white supremacists.
Those are Doc Martens? Aren’t they really expensive? I thought skinheads were wearing used boots from the Army/Navy store. 10-20 bucks, depending on condition.
I mean the skinhead culture started in England. Not just the racist aspects of it nor anything with laces (first I heard of it was this thread).
Is there a way we know this isn’t nonsense like “It’s OK to be White” or “white supremacists use the “OK” hand signal?”
Nor did my SJW eighteen year old daughter, whose knee high Docs have either red or purple laces depending on mood. She wears them that way because of RWBY.
50 year olds reliving their youth, hipsters, and people who like well made leather boots.
(Mine are purple. My husbands are black. My daughter has three pair. None of us are grunge, hipsters or skinheads. My husband did have a punk moment 35 years ago)
Laces a problem? Best stick with engineers’ boots, then.
The problem with color codes like this has always been that they’re a very local, sometimes regional thing and not even all that well-controlled within that region. As I understand the history, Brits with boots would lace them with their team’s color at first, and the codes only emerged later in a spotty way.
Also, the news article in incorrect that the boots in the picture are a white supremacist symbol. According to the SPLC (who they reference as an authority), skinheads also “straight lace” their boots in a distinctive style, which is not done on this poster.
actually any color shoelaces other than white and black were banned in schools public gatherings in these parts due to various gang related things
But this one I knew and in los angeles county there was the added crips/bloods war …
Practically all I ever knew about skinheads: they had no hair, they wore white shirts with braces ( suspenders in American ), they wore Doc Martens ( orthopedic corrective boots ) with which they would kick your head in, they listened to Slade, punk rock and reggae.
There seems no reason to desire their closer acquaintance.
Yea, that movement is not necessary needed in civilzed society, I agree with upthread, we need to reclaim our shoe laces!!
Eh. I’m with those who say this is an obscure factoid that is best ignored so we don’t let those nuts co-opt a perfectly good personal item.
Great! Now I DON’T have to hate her! yay me!
I did not know anything about this. I’ve literally just replaced my bootlaces and I happened to choose red. I can’t take them back for a refund now they are used, so I think the easiest solution is if I just become a racist.
My hiking boots have sported red laces for years. Who knew?
I got a pair of red laces as a giveaway from a race I did. Dammit, now I need to go out & buy a pair of Doc Martens to put them in.