Awhile back, I learned to tie my shoes correctly. It turns out that I'd been doing it wrong all these years.
The basic shoe bow is, in some ways, 3/4ths of a Granny Knot or a Square Knot, depending on how you tie it. If you pull the loose ends of each side of the bow all the way through the knot, you get one or the other depending on how you started. A Granny Knot is a considerably poorer knot that the Square and can work itself apart much more easily leading to untied shoes. Double knotting can help, but if you've been tying Granny Bows the whole time, doubling the knot can compound your problem.
While buying a pair of shoes recently, I was told: "UR DOIN' IT WRONG!"
Since then, I've been slowly trying to retrain myself to time my shoes properly. This is harder than it seems. Three decades of shoe tying are hard to overcome.
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