If you like trainers you are going to love this trend. Lace locks have been slowly growing in momentum over the past few months and now there are a fair few around with a fair few different designs on offer online.

So what are lace locks ? Glad you asked – lace locks are small bits of metal or plastic that go onto your laces on your trainers generally on the bottom lace of the shoe and generally they are matching yet say different words for your left and right feet. Knuckle dusters or knuckle tattoos for your trainers if you will.

They range in price and nowadays some trainers are coming complete with lace locks as brands catch on but there are a lot of cool ones out there for you to grab and customise the trainers you have already.

These are $20 from the Shoegame

Love My Custom has a whole range of locks available here.

Prez-One are one of the few sites we have found that offer lace locks that aren’t just gold or metal.

Speakeasy offer make your own options.