Why I wear slipon shoes.

On an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are almost 2 Trillion ways to feed a shoelace though those 12 eyelet

The lace should generally start and finish from the top pair of eyelets.

The lace should pass through each eyelet only once.

Each eyelet should contribute to pulling together the sides of the shoe.

The lacing should not be too difficult to tighten or loosen.

Any pattern formed should be relatively stable. Ignore irrelevant variations (eg. changing the direction through a single eyelet).

Above all, the finished result should be visually pleasing.