June 24, 2004

The Surgeons Knot. Never knew it existed for shoes. Huh.
posted by Headsessions 20 years ago
  • that turns out rather pretty, doesn't it?
  • Sweet! Now maybe my shoes will stay tied and I'll stop stepping on my laces and stumbling around like an absentminded buffoon! Headsessions, this is quite possibly a turning point in my shoe tying career! (Seriously!)
  • Thanks, Headsessions. I now know quite a bit more about knots, including the realization that I am lucky to have stumbled on the non-ravelling way to tie my shoes. Credit to whomever taught me. Back to practicing the Ian method....
  • I've been tying my shoes for 20 minutes nonstop now. No lie.
  • Is there some similar method for easily making that blasted Windsor tie knot? No matter what, I always make a mess and end up with some bulbous-looking lump. So, I always try to find someone else to do it for me", and I keep the knot done, until it's time to wash it. Which, btw, I find disturbingly arousing, when done by a woman... wait, did I click 'Post'?
  • I have been using this knot for years w/out knowing it had a name, very handy for secure knot in "slippery" circumstances (ie keeping my leather bodice snug...)
  • Rowr. For Flagpole.
  • Wow, I've been tying my ties in a Windsor knot for years and I never even realised it. I feel dead posh, now.
  • There's also a book called "85 Ways to Tie a Tie" - there used to be a site that listed several of them (I found it somehow when MeFi first posted the shoelace site), but I'll be damned if I can locate one that tells you more than four ways now. Anybody knows where it is, post the link. I'd like to see it again.
  • Isn't there a quote about it not being a good day if you have to start out by tying a little noose around your neck? And do we really want to tie our shoes or even to wear them at all? Take them off and feel the grass under your feet. Run your toes through wet sand. Squish the mud. Free yourself from the tyranny of pants!
  • Waaaaaaaay ahead of you on that one.