Retsy Series 1 · Card 0274 · 80-FSH
Pin it on. Mean it forever.
Tiny safety pins strung with plastic beads in a friend's colors, clipped onto shoelaces as a pledge.
The story · 1987
You made them during indoor recess with a coffee can of beads and a box of tiny safety pins. Each color combo meant a specific friend, and your sneaker laces showed your entire social life at a glance. Losing a pin in the gym bleachers felt like losing a year of memories.
The most popular kid in one fourth-grade class wore so many pins that her laces could not be tied.
Six finishes
Shoelace Bead Pins comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-FSH
Shoelace Bead Pins is one of 32 cards in the 80s Fashion & Style set. Here are the other 31.
