HICKIES 1.0 No-Tie Shoelaces

I have had these for a few days and the convenience of them is awesome. They have three ways to attach them, normal, tight, and loose. They are small though. I don't have a large foot by any means (10.5) but I had to put them on loose and it was a nice tight fit. I could play basketball in them. I did put them on clutch for shoes. I don't know if that makes a difference. I would have given them 5 stars if they would have been normal fit on normal instead of tight. It is very handy to just slide on instead of tie up.UPDATE: I've used these for a few weeks now. They do loosen up. I had them on the loose setting and the did get loose. I now have them on the normal setting and it is just right. I'll post another update if they continue to stretch. But because they are now working as expected I changed from 4 to 5 stars. You just need to break them in a bit.

Considering I wear US Mens 11 EEE Wide and have it fully laced to the top, I found it silly how many reviews are blasting this as being too "narrow". On the hickies official website they have guides on how to lace these properly. Regular, Loose, Tight, Mixed, Extra Loose, Extra Tight, Classic and Loops. Anyone who has smaller feet than mine has not properly experimented with the various possible pattern combination. I have worn it without issues for a month and it has not snapped. So if you are smaller than me, you will not have any issues. ( hickies.com/pages/how-it-works )I personally have the bottom most as "regular" (straight across), followed by 2 sets of "loose" (skip a hole) and at the very top "extra loose" (next hole up). So please, look up the various methods lacing before complaining to everyone that these "do not work". I love it, easy to slip on in the morning and slip off at work (or back on in a hurry when the boss walks by)If you have bigger feet, or if you want to try figuring out if these would potentially work for you, try experimenting with a piece of string.The "shaft" of the lace is approx 3.5 inches or about 8.75cm. The center "knot" is .5 inches or 1.25cm (formed by the overlapping head and tail of the hickies). So take a seven strings about the size of the shaft, loop it through and figure out what pattern would give you enough length where the gap meeting in the middle (representing the overlapping knot) between the strings (shaft size) is at or less than the size of the "knot" (.5in/1.25cm).Hickies should really include a little pull out manual with lacing strategies or direct users to the website. Any instructions appears to be part of the plastic package itself and that gets covered by all of Amazon's lovely inventory stickers and barcodes.My only other "complaint" depending on how you lace it, the "knot" may have a tendency to "roll over" showing the bottom side. It makes me a little bit OCD when they are not perfectly lined up down the center and all facing up.

I love this product. I feel like a Pinterest fail because how they look on MY shoes is NOT how they look on the Hickies shoe models. But, I have shoes with tabs, not holes (see my photos). I bought them because my laces are always coming undone and tripping me at the worst times. I even broke my ankle a few months back because of that. Glad I didn't hit my head when I went down. I've tried double tying my laces, using short laces, knotting the laces...and nothing worked. I don't remember this being a big problem when I was a kid. I'm 60 now. Active, and I own more sneakers than heels. So....Here we go:PROS: very easy to install or lace into your shoes. Took me 5 minutes and I have tabs I had to coax the Hickies through. Very sturdy and flexible, but keep sharp fingernails away from them. They look like you could pinch them in half!! lol!!Lighter than shoelaces.You get three options for lacing - tight, regular, medium, so if you're not happy with the tension, just change the way they're laced. The instructions tell you how.If you like color coordinating stuff, they come in enough colors to do that. If you don't like looking like you're a 5-year old you can get plain old black. They won't make your feet look less fat, but no one will notice you don't have laces.Good, clear, easy to follow instructions, if you don't have questions and are a visual learner. Really, you can figure this out. If you can't, then maybe someone else DOES need to be putting your shoes on for you.Good packaging and arrived a day ahead of schedule. Under promise and overdeliver is always a good policy.These are the kind of things design and package wise Apple might make.There are 14 Hickies in a package - enough for most shoes and extra if something breaks.They won't get knotted when wet. In fact, water won't affect them at all. I sail and kayak and these are perfect for slipping my shoes off and on with one hand as I usually have a paddle or something in one hand anyway. They slip on and off easily.Your kids are going to love them. Your spouse is going to love them.CONS: INsanely, ridiculously overpriced. I can see $10, or would snap up a dozen boxes at $8, but $14.99!? And I see that price has dropped a buck since I bought mine. I'd have rated them a 5-star except for the price.There could be enough for two pairs of shoes, at first I thought there were. But, no such luck. You'll use 10-12 of the Hickies and then have a few spares to throw into a junk drawer where you can't find them if one breaks. I think if they'd include another four to six hickies for the price, so you get enough for two shoes with no spares, the price would be resonable. I am using one of the spares to hold my gym key to my shoe. I think as long as there is tension on it, it should be fine. You can also loosen a Hickey to thread a car key or even those key/money wallets to the shoe, so that's good, but I'm too lazy to move it up to the PROS. I'm really trying to find a CON, but I can honestly say the price is the only think I can see right now. I've slipped them off and on a couple of times, and walked around in them and they're really great. The "regular" tension is fine for me. I guess if you're a runner or you obcess about how your shoes fit you'll have to fiddle with the tension, but as one short, fat, old lady who mostly walks for exercise and spends a lot of time with her feet in the water, I love 'em.

Buen producto, cumple función, aun que se tornaron color naranja de la nada.

Habe ich für meine Frau bestellt. Anfangs war ich etwas skeptisch, weil ich dachte "das braucht kein Mensch". Aber ich musste mich vom Gegenteil überzeugen lassen. Sehr stabil und ja "nur" reinschlüpfen trotz mittelstarker Bindung ist es dann nicht, aber erleichtert das Anziehen und wertet in unserem Fall den Sketcher Schuh meiner Frau optisch noch auf. Von meiner Frau / uns eine klare Kaufempfehlung für jeden der es braucht.

Perfectos para pasar de los cordones, además aprietan bien , casi más que el cordón , solo me a echo falta poner 3 por zapatilla , en vez de los 5 agujeros

Bien

Efficace mais il faut être délicat pour ne pas casser les lacets en enfilant les chaussures