I love these laces! I bought two pairs, black and pink. I put the pink ones on my work out shoes, and black ones on my work tennis shoes. Both of them are Nike. By boyfriend also has a few pairs. My boyfriend wears a men's size 11 and he puts his laces on horizontal like in the picture. I wear a women's 11 and prefer my shoes tighter so I crisscrossed them making "X"s so they look like they are tied and the top one I have it go straight across. They make it much more convenient to put your shoes on quickly and without having your shoes untie. I work in retail so I am constantly on the move and never had one break on me. I wear a size 11 and I used all the smallest ties and had 4 left over ones that are all big. I almost wished they had more smaller options. However because I crisscrossed my ties I believe it looks more realistic, and made them tighter.

One thing I noticed my pink pair came with a nice handy dandy threader, to help get them through the holes, However my black pair did not, It was okay since I could just use the same one for the same pair of shoes, However my boyfriend never received a handy dandy threader and he just used a pair of pliers.

For the rest of my life I will buy these for any pair of shoes thar require a shoe lace. (besides any formal wear of coarse)