The perfect shoe lacing

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Aron Schatz
Posted
December 4, 2002
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What more do we need to study than this stuff? At least we got it right the first time.

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There are many millions of different possibilities but, reassuringly, the proof shows that centuries of human trial and error has already selected out the strongest lacing patterns. However, the pattern using the least amount of lace possible, the decorative "bowtie" lacing, is usually only seen in shoe shop displays.

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