Thread: shoelaces - шнурки для ботиноки or just шнурки?

Corset lace (for example) is also шнурок, but by default шнурок is a shoelace.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Corset lace (for example) is also шнурок, but by default шнурок is a shoelace.

What about the strings on a фартук ("apron") -- would they be шнурки or тесьмы or ленты or what? (They're nearly always "strings" in English -- as in the idioms "to be tied to one's mother's apron strings", and "to cut the apron strings", both often used by a wife whose husband is totally under his mom's control...)

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

What about the strings on a фартук ("apron") -- would they be шнурки or тесьмы or ленты or what? (They're nearly always "strings" in English -- as in the idioms "to be tied to one's mother's apron strings", and "to cut the apron strings", both often used by a wife whose husband is totally under his mom's control...)

People often use завязки (for those things which tied up behind the back) I believe there is no special word for the things around the neck at least I don't know a way to describe those in one word

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

What about the strings on a фартук ("apron") -- would they be шнурки or тесьмы or ленты or what? (They're nearly always "strings" in English -- as in the idioms "to be tied to one's mother's apron strings", and "to cut the apron strings", both often used by a wife whose husband is totally under his mom's control...)

Шнурок normally has round cross-section and is a separate object. Often it is attached to the cloth with a special hole reinforced with metal.