The term shows up in the movie Green Room. Plot: a punk rock band is booked to play at a skinhead club. As they’re making to leave, they witness a murder happen backstage. They manage to lock themselves into the green room, but they’re surrounded with no good way out. Brutal movie, but good.
Anyway, just after they’ve locked themselves in, the skinheads call the club owner, Darcy (Patrick Stewart), for help. He starts making plans. From the script:
When I saw the movie, I knew what they were referring to right away. I had to explain it to my nephew.
My buddy was part of SARP and I told him to where lime green laces just to confuse everybody; he did and it worked like a charm. Whenever anyone asked what the green signified he’d give a different (usually smartassed) answer.
That’s unfair to Cracked, which as far as I know doesn’t have an MO of extorting donations from elderly wealthy Jewish donors by threatening the Third Reich is returning if not enough money is raised.
Well, yes. Or if there is some sort of code it is quite contradictory, when something like red laces can mean you’re a racist, or possibly anti-racist. I don’t really have that much trouble believing that in certain circles lace colors mean something. After all, I live in Chicago, and clothing colors here can definitely mean something. But if I see an ad with somebody in a Georgetown Hoyas outfit, I don’t automatically assume it’s a gang reference.