A shoe tongue should be stopped from sliding to the side.
When you're out and about, the tongue of your shoe keeps sliding to the side, it's pretty annoying.5 minutes later, you pull it back to its original position, and it is back on its side again!This problem can be solved if your shoes have a tongue loop, which is a small strip of fabric in the center of your tongue.Since most sneakers, boots, and casual footwear have these, you should be able to re-lace your shoes in a few minutes.There are other hacks you can use to keep that tongue where it belongs.
Step 1: If there is a small fabric loop in the middle of your tongue, you need to check it.
A tongue loop is found in most sneakers, boots, and casual footwear.You can see every part of the tongue if you loosen the laces on your shoes.There is a fabric loop in the middle of the tongue.If you have one, you can use it to hold your tongue up.Some shoes have a set of vertical slit that are cut into the tongue instead of the fabric loop.If you have them, you can use them the same way as a tongue loop.This works with any lace pattern if the laces cross over one another at an angle.The only shoelace patterns you can't do with are the parallel bars.
Step 2: Just below the loop, untie your shoes and put them in the row of eyelets.
Pull the laces out through the eyelets, which are the parallel sets of holes that hold your shoelaces in place.If you want to get to the set of eyelets below the tongue loop, you have to remove the laces from each row.Before you start, make sure your laces are equal in length.Uneven laces can cause the tongue to slide to one side or the other.Relace your shoes if your laces are not even.
Step 3: Attach your shoelaces to the tongue loop.
The lace should be moved through the loop.Depending on how much room you have in the loop, you may need to slide one lace under the other so that they are resting on top of one another.There is no slack in your laces if you pull the laces all the way through.Do not thread the lace through the other side.You are going to break the pattern here.
Step 4: Pull the shoelace through the other side.
Lift each end of your shoelace and pull it back to where it started.For the shoelace on the left side, you slide it through the loop and then pull it back to the first open eyelet.This is done for each end of the shoelace.
Step 5: The rest of the shoelace should belaced the same way as before.
Continue lacing your shoes the same way they are lacing beneath the tongue loop.If you are using the traditional method, keep alternating your laces on top of one another until you get to the top eyelets.As long as the laces cross one another on their way up to the top of each shoe, you can use any other pattern.
Step 6: The laces are behind the tongue.
Unlace the top two rows of eyelets if you don't have a tongue loop.Relace your shoes by running the second-to-last row of laces behind the tongue, not on top of it.On top of the tongue, relace the top row of eyelets.The row of laces behind the tongue keeps it in place when you tie your shoes.If you have a pair of sneakers with a large tongue, this is a good option.
Step 7: The tongue should be pinned down with the help of the additional eyelets at the top.
Remove the top row of laces and slide them into the same side of the shoe.A little room is all you need to make a 2–1 in loop.Before tying your shoes, run each lace through the loop on the opposite side and pull tight.Once your shoes are tied, this holds your tongue in place.If your heels tend to slide around in your shoes, it is an especially good option.The loop at the top of the tongue will prevent you from pulling your tongue to one side or the other.
Step 8: If the laces are not even at the top, relace your shoes.
Pull your laces down to the bottom row if one end is longer than the other.Before relacing your shoes, adjust the length of each lace so that they are the same.There is an asymmetrical amount of pressure on your tongue when the laces are not even.