What are the side holes of your sneakers for?

The objects that we use every day sometimes presents some peculiarities that from seeing them so much, in the end they go unnoticed.However, they have their explanation, In Lifestyle we talk to you for example, what the small pocket of your jeans was for.This time we want to approach another mystery of our day to day, so that the side holes of your sneakers are used.

What are the side holes of your sneakers for?

Not all sneakers have those little holes , but one of the most popular brands of this type of articles, Talk, if you do .Converse was founded in 1908 and in 1917 manufactured the first sneakers to play basketball, the Converse All Star.A fact that you may not know is that Converse was about to break and in 2003 it was acquired by NIKE that completely changed its commercial strategy creating collections of important designers and sponsored by NBA stars.Many models of Converse shoes have those intriguing side holes.

Most of us thought that their purpose was to provide the footwear and feet with optimal ventilation, but apparently it is not Like this, a youtuber named Sarah Barlow has found out what they really are for and has uploaded this video that accumulates thousands of visits.We are not absolutely certain that this is the case, but we found it interesting to share it with you.

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The holes serve to hold the footwear better .They are especially useful for people with a narrow foot that many times they notice that the sneaker does not fit well with their anatomy and they have the feeling that they lose the shoe.

This function seems logical if we look at that the side holes sneakers are exactly the same as the ones we use for sar laces .As you have seen in the video it is simply to arrive, putting the cords as always, to the holes that are at the height of the sides, at that time the threading has to go down to these and then go back up and finish as usual.What do you think of the system? Did you think that the side holes could have this purpose? We don't!

What are the side holes of your sneakers for?

We also didn't know what the small hole in the body of the BIC pens was for, nor the one that since 1991 presents the caps of their classic pens.If you want to know more about these ingenious perforations you can read it in our article You know what it is for the side hole of the BIC pens?

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