The most formal way makes the laces lie in lines across the top of the shoe. Start at the bottom left and take the lace to the top hole. Pull enough from the top hole to tie the knot when you are finished. Now, go to the bottom hole and thread the lace through the other bottom hole from the outside and through the second hole from the inside on the opposite side. Then across to the outside of the second hole on the first side, and so on.