rants by Ariane su kanji

Hmmm... So when I was in Detroit the friend I was staying with was talking about a course he had taken to prep for the transfer and mentioned (after I untied his shoes a couple of times) that he found out that he had been tying his shoes wrong for years. I had been mildly curious what working had done since I used to have to work harder to be cutely annoying with his shoes since he kept them double knotted. So, after getting some ribbing from the few of us that were over, he decided to demonstrate. Normally people are taught to make a granny knot between the first knot and the bow, but this doesn't hold very well - you are supposed to make a square knot. This is as simple as crossing the strings over the other way when you start, but it makes a big difference, expecially on waxed dress laces.

I don't own any shoes that use the waxed laces, but i do have several shirts with ribbon ties. I decided to further test this theory today wearing my new work shirt (green stripey with lightly ruched pockets and ribbons on the sleeves) by tying the left bow the old way and the right the new. Surprisingly, the left is still holding and after re-tying the right several times before 10am, I decided to convert the other to that way of tying. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks :-)