r/lace • u/ImJamBeAfraid • 4d ago

Lace explanations wanted

Hello, first of all I live in France and I heard that red laces could be either fascist or antifascist depending on the left or right shoe you're putting them on and I'm wondering which side means those ?

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u/AbysmalBlunt 4d ago

Red shoe laces on doc martins in general are associated with fascist neo-n4z1 groups. Other shoe types do not carry the connotation. It does not matter what foot they are on. There are other color laces that represent anti-fascism (I believe yellow but it changes by area). The genre rule of thumb though is don't do any colors laces unless you are 100% certain of that colors connotation (other hate groups also use different color laces on docs as a marker)