There will be another version of the boots - one with a more sporty and practical look.
I was going for the dolled up look on this one - glad to know it hit the target.

My reasoning it that with two different looking boots, the set wil have versatility - one in a sexy direction, another in the direction of sporty or superhero look. 

For the laces, I did a zigzag polyline through the holes (simple straight lines), then did a vertical extrusion, then added thickness. This is with a lot of hand refinement and tweaking till it looked the way I wanted it.

Instead of the curve path, I like to start with straight lines, then strategically add slices where I want them after adding a level of smoothing. Curved path gave me too many facets, and didn't behave any better. When I add breaks only where I need them, it keeps the polygon count a tad lower.

I already deleted the curve I started with... otherwise I'd show you a screenshot :(

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