Abstract: A storage system for footwear includes two container portions having open mouths formed by container walls. The container portions each include a footwear retainer configured to hold respective articles of footwear. One of the two container portions includes one or more magnets coupled to a peripheral edge of the respective open mouth and the other of the two includes a corresponding ferromagnetic portion configured to mate with the one or more magnets. The one or more magnets selectively hold the open mouths of the container portions together in a biased closure.

Abstract: A shoelace system for an article of footwear may include an elastic shoelace having a metal tip with a rounded-rectangle cross section. Corresponding eyelets of the footwear have a similarly shaped opening. In some examples, the shoelace tip is configured to pass through the opening of the eyelet in only one orientation. In some examples, manufacturing the shoelace includes inserting the lace into a hollow tip and then stamping the tip into the desired shape.