What is a U-Lace?
A U-Lace is a modular 2-3/8” segment of elasticized lace made to span a single set of eyelets, providing you with virtually limitless ways to customize and configure the look of your sneakers. The segments possess 250% of stretch. They also are engineered with enough rebound to hold sneakers snugly on the feet.

What is a Top-Lace?
A Top Lace is a 20” standard lace that allows U-Lacers to add a standard bow-tie knot at the top of their sneakers even though they are laced with U-Lace segments. The Top-Lace is required at all times when competing in sneakers laced in U-Lace.

Where can I get it?
U-Lace will soon be available at retailers all over the world. Check out our Where to Get It page to find places to purchase U-Lace. Our web store will open soon so you can get the freshest product direct from us.

Why is the product called U-Lace?
The idea of U-Lace was born because the creator of the product saw lacing schemes in store windows that were impossible for consumers to recreate at home. He wanted to give the consumer – that means YOU – the ability to custom lace your kicks in millions of quick and easy combinations. Thus U-Lace.

Does U-Lace work in all Sneakers?
U-Lace will work in nearly any sneaker with eyelets as long as the eyelets are at least 1/8” in diameter. Of course some of the sneakers we see today use loops vs. eyelets and U-lace will not work on those. The good news as that at least 90% of sneakers have eyelets.

How many U-Lace’s come in a package?
A standard pack of U-Lace contains 16 U-Lace Segments and 2 Top Laces.

How Many Sneakers Can I lace up with a pack of U-Lace?
A package of U-Lace contains 16 U-Lace Segments and 2 20” top laces. Since most shoes contain 8 sets of eyelets, a package of U-Lace is enough to lace up one pair of shoes in either a solid color - or in multi-colors, with a multi-pack.

If you buy single color packs and want them to create multi-color designs then a single color pack will go much further and can be split across 3 or 4 pairs of shoes.

Is U-Lace easy to install in my sneakers?
Installing U-Lace in some sneakers is easier than others but it’s still a snap. You simply pick the color you want and push the aglet thru the eyelet and pull from the other side. Once all the way thru the eyelet just give a tug to lock the aglet against the shoe. Repeat until the sneaker is fully laced.

Check out the instructions on the box of U-Lace – they actually lock together inside the shoe and the instructions show you how.

Why does that black shoe with the red, purple, green and orange stitching appear on every page of the website?
Oh, you mean the “Harajuku Shoe” – the shoe that gave birth to U-Lace. Well, the creator of U-Lace came up with the idea for the product when he saw a sneaker that looked just like the “Harajuku Shoe” while trend spotting in Tokyo in Harajuku. The “Harajuku Shoe” pays homage to the birth of U-Lace.

Can I hoop in my U-Laces?
Whether you can hoop or not is something to be determined on the basketball court. But nonetheless, if you can hoop, then you can certainly hoop in sneakers laced up with U-Lace. Just remember to always wear the top lace when playing any sport in U-Lace.

Are there really over 110 Billion U-Lace color combinations?
Ahhh, yes there are. The creator of U-Lace did the math and here’s how it goes:

Most shoes have 8 sets of eyelets (8) and U-Lace currently has 24 colors (24). For each set of eyelets you get to choose 1 of the 24 colors. This happens 8 times. So that turns into the equation 24 to the 8th power = 110,075,300,000 combinations.

So why do you say that there are 2 trillion color and configuration combo’s?
Well in addition to picking colors U-Lacers also get to pick configurations. Criss-cross; parallels, teeter-totter, etc. We created about 18 and decided to leave the rest to the consumers. But for every color combination we created 18 configurations.

110,000,000,000 color combinations multiplied by 18 is nearly 2 trillion color/configuration combos. Which is why you really can “transform your sneakers into a limited edition of one.”

I have a great idea for a new U-Lace color or configuration, what can I do with it?
Watch this website for information about our U-Lace Designer Program. Sign up and you’ll be among the first to catch the details.