All Buttoned Up Shorts: Lace colour codes

The boot lace color codes carried weighty messages within the subculture. According to Mary McMican's essay, this phenomenon originated in London, where sturdy Doc Martens served both work and combat purposes. The colours spoke volumes: white denoted white pride, blue protested police brutality, red warned of neo-Nazi leanings, yellow stood strong against racism, purple celebrated gay pride, and green signified neutrality.

You might think the boot lace code could come back, but it probably won't. On social media, young people wear boots or Doctor Martens with different laces without knowing or caring about their meanings. It might be the end of the lace code time.

[pop]

I have seen some people associate red laces could also be to signify as Communist or Socialist leaning, but I think that might be a more modern interpretation.

[slobodanradanovic]

Good video about a part of skinhead history.
Keep it going “buttoned up’s”!

[xDamageProducer]

Lace code has been dead since the end of the 1990’s.

[natsitsa]

Sadly? Yes. Lace codes are dead. I live in Hungary and i wore the purple and the red (Anarchist Trashmetalhead, yes in hungary it matters where you wore the red lace, and the purple means trashmetal) But now i dont give a fuck about the lace codes because they are useless now.

[Hellohellohello]

This is inaccurate
Yellow is neutrality because its the normal color of doc marten laces also blue means you killed a cop lol

[davidrobinson]

Never seen so much bollocks in my life