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Ladder lacing. specifically on boots, is a means by which white supremacists / neo nazis identify each other in public.
Oh fuck.
That's for letting me know this- I would have eventually tried this one out someday thinking it looked neat lol
how is that different from just normal snearker lacing? i have one pair of "combat boots" looking things, it's for a costume, and i just laced them like my sneakers. now you have me nervous.
with the costume (below) no one's going to confuse it for neonazi, but sometimes i might want to wear them like, i don't know, shoveling.
It's very specific, and you won't be mistaken for one of them if you do it "wrong", and you will do it "wrong" if you're not in the know. I'm not in the know, so I don't know how to do it, but I know someone who is (in the know, not in one of those groups).
Well that's absolutely made up, but I bet it goes viral.
I have a source I believe to be reliable about such topics, who probably would want to remain anonymous. If this isn't true, then they're fucking with me, which is entirely possible but I think unlikely about this.
The colour of the laces used to be a thing apparently. Look up lace code. But just ladder lacing doesn't mean anything. I've seen a bunch of people do it (myself included) and have never heard anyone claim anything of the sort.
Generally white and/or red laces on boots are the colours people associate with neo Nazis.