#lace code

lace code is very much alive and you need to learn what it actually is

if it was truly dead, no one would fuckin talk about it

lace code is using colored laces, ladder laced on work boots, to signify political stances and punk status

there is very little debate about which color means what and it's basically exclusively online

here are the colors, to my knowledge ;; black - baby punk/new boots ; white - KKK ; red - nazi/fascist ; orange - n/a ; yellow - antifacist ; green - ecological activist ; blue - cop fighter/killer ; purple - queer/activist ; pink - feminist

these are the colors and meanings i've seen most often, that are offered in shops (aside from white and red, for obvi reasons), and/or are talked about the most in different punk spaces (online and offline)

still freaking out over Hobie's design— i love every detail about it but specifically the color of his shoe laces

yellow means you're anti-racist, and then blue means you've killed a cop.

love this dude and his lace code ideologies (funnily enough I wore my yellow and purple laces to watch this) Yellow= Anti-Fascism/Anti-Racism (its region dependent), Blue= Killed a Cop

also

GWEN

Fascists use other dog whistles. You need to educate yourself on the real things to look for, because screaming at some punk online for having red laces is counterproductive and meaningless to countering fascist movements.

Punk is a counter-culture movement. Not an aesthetic. And educating yourself on this is bare minimum when you claim to be apart of said cultural movement.

For example, lace code was always regional. Red laces in Poland meant you were an anarchist, in London it meant you were a socialist/more likely than not a communist. But so many of you can't even read up enough to know these things. You should know that lace code varied from location and place. Even within towns/cities!!!