Zip-Up Ice Skates
Zip-up ice skates with laces too – to adjust indoors. Outdoors, you’d just zip them on or off without freezing bare hands or fumbling with laces.
By J.J.Drill, St. Nazianz, Wis.
December 1960
Can do one better these days with a modern pair of ice skating boots such as this pair on Amazon that includes a locking buckle and strap. (affiliate link)