To think shoe fitters shouldn't tie laces bunny ears style.

[LynetteScavo]

There is just something wrong about it, IMO.

And I've just tried it, and it's actually quite difficult.

I thought the 'proper' was bunny ears!

"Little bunny wakes up and puts up one ear.
Then he hops round the hill, pops out of his warren and there's both his ears!"

That's how my dad taught me when I was 5 :)

Well, you live and learn, I had no idea this method existed. Will have a go with the DCs.

I could never get the hangame if tying laces as a child until I 'invented' (obviously I wasn't getting 1st person to do so but no one else taught me) the bunny ears.
I remember my Grandma telling me it just wasn't the 'correct way to tie shoelaces' until she tried it herself and said it made a much securer knot!

We had this discussion at work the other day, DColleague1 had no idea there was any way other than bunny ears, DC2 had no idea there was a bunny ears way. We tried both ways and, once the laces are tied, we couldn't tell which way they had been tied.

It was a slow day at the office

What?! I thought bunny ears was the only way! Have people been sniggering at me behind my back for all these years?

I never knew there was more than one way! I have never used this bunny ears version ... can adults really not tie shoelaces properly?!

I taught myself to tie laces that way, when I couldn't manage to do it the "proper" way. I was very pleased with myself! I still tie laces that way... life is just too short to worry about that shit

I've only ever done the "tie, make one loop, swoop the other one over, through, make another loop. Done"

Never been told any of this bunny ears business.

Never heard of bunny ears.

I suspect bunny ears is easier to do if your not weating the shoes. I hate tying kids laces they don't keep their feet firmly on the fkoor at the right moment.

And I hate this Kindle not putting a line under stupid typos.

I've just spent the last 10 minutes tying and untying my shoelaces, using both methods.

The end result is the same: a secure bow that can be instantly loosened by pulling the tails. It's a little trickier to ensure you make a reef knot using bunny ears, but that might just be a matter of practice. The only real difference is that with bunny ears one of the tails lies on top of the knot, whereas with the other method both tails lie under the knot.

My verdict (as a committed other-methoder for 45y): bunny ears is a perfectly acceptable method of tying laces.

YABU

Does it matter?
And by shoe fitters do you mean 18 year olds on minimum wage at Clarkes?

I am astounded! I only knew the "proper" way until I read this!

Anyway..OP YABU. It doesn't matter. If that's the way the salesperson learned then that is fine. If the shoe stays laced it's as good as any other way!

I am dyslexic and dyspraxic and no way could I tie them like bunny rabbits. The bit when you put fingers in and pull was really difficult for me, I never got the tension right and ended up pulling it all out.
The other way I had no problem at all and got it relatively easy.
We had no Velcro in the 60's and 70's it was buckle throughout infants and laces at junior.

Its actually quite easy for children to master bunny ears laces
I use it,ive never tied laces any other way
But obv on mn there'll be an etiquette and debretts of laces

I might well be investigating some of those mega-weirdsecure knots for my walking shoes, although I think the main issue is having round rather than flat laces.

I had never realised there are so many ways of tieing shoe laces, though I should have known, really, after the discovery that there are many ways to tie ties (something I've not actually had to worry about since I was at school.)

DoJo! So glad you said that! "Take a little loop, now make another, one loop goes over and under the other"? I remember that from when I was small but until I saw that video could never figure out how to tie laces like that!

I don't have the fine motor skills to do anything other than bunny ears which I think an OT recommended to my parents as a child. She also recommended I do a knot slightly differently to make that more secure and bunny ears easier. And I tie my shoes before I put them on because I struggle to keep my feet in a position where I can reach them.

YES dojo!

I've always tied shoe laces with 2 bows tied together and then I double knot them so they don't come undone. I never mastered the whole one bow then wrap the other one round to make another bow.

The laces stay done up so I don't get why it would make any difference at all how you tie them.

I've also never heard of more than one way to tie laces. I looked at the bunny ears diagrams and though that's how I do it. Then I looked at the "standard knot" diagram and thought the same. I think I do do either/both, depending on my mood and which feels easier at the time. I note that "Ian's Shoelace site" say both have an identical result.

So YABU because "standard" and "bunny ears" are the same knot, just with slightly different routes to the end result.

I taught myself bunny ears style (2 loops tied together - never knew it had a name) when I 2 as about 6 or 7. Nearly 30 years later I still do it this way. I can do down the rabbit hole style but my way is ingrained and I don't intend to change now.

For what it's worth, I've never been teased let alone commented to about my shoe laces tying style.