For shoes, I personally use
Hickies (I have the boring black ones, but you can get all kinds of cool colors) on the shoes I wear every day and I love them. They do gradually wear out and break, and occasionally one comes undone, but I love not having to mess around with tying my shoes all the time (I can't seem to tie them so they don't come undone several times a day). Do look at alternative lacing patterns if they are too tight instead of immediately deciding they are no good. Mine are laced in two overlapping loops of two with only the very bottom one being a single loop. Two non-overlapping loops would be even looser.
