Hi everybody,
As a newbie I am trying to do as much walking as I can, as I find it eases my ankles.
I like to walk wearing trainers, as many people do, but my very old and comfortable ones have shoe laces which I really struggle with. I can do them up but it is a really painful task.
I went to the 'trainer shop' to look at some options - maybe velcro or similar but couldn't see any I liked. The assistant said most youngsters these days don't do up the laces they simply tuck them in the shoe - so I thought I'll give that a go - sorry doesn't work for me the trainers rub and I like them to feel tight - so back to square one.
Being a engineer I thought there must be another good cheap way to do this - and so this is my solution which works brilliantly for me.
Leave the trainers exactly as they are with the laces - thread a thing called a Draw cord toggle lock on - pull tight - slip the toggle and that's it - tuck the remaining laces into the shoe.
They are so easy to do up and they open right up to make the shoe easy to get on
My wife had a couple of these toggles in her sewing box - but I notice my fleece uses them for the bottom draw cord and they are available from ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws...:MEWAX:IT#ht_2413wt_901
I did see from an earlier post that elastic laces are available form Amazon which is another good solution.
Anyway hope it helps someone.
I would add a photo of them to this article but I can't make the insert image work - can anybody tell me how to do it?
Martin
