What's not to like? These look just like the original equipment laces on my Asics GT-2000 running shoes, except they are a little shorter (see photo). I don't miss the extra couple of inches missing from each end of the laces, because the originals were a bit long. I wanted to match the bright orange soles of my otherwise uninteresting Asics shoes, and found the neon orange laces worked well (the originals had been black).