This is interesting news as it is the first shoelace I have lost in a dozen years I guess, I've had these work boots for a few years now maybe 8 or 9 years and I worked in kitchens in them and in the back yard etc.
I seem to remember posting about my Tobby boot laces wearing out after 25 or so years
I am getting on I know but how many other people remember having to carry multiple spare shoe laces on walks and what a revelation parachute cord was.
These days we no longer need to carry dedicated shoe laces as any bit of synthetic cord will do but going back a few decades it was one of the major subjects we talked about around the cooking fire while we waited for the De-Hy to reconstitute