Early Jacobit period womens shoes?

[Nighthawk]

OK, so I'm making the men's shoes from the pattern here:

http://www.smoke-fire.com/smoke-and-fire-patterns-2.asp

So can anyone tell me what the female equivalent would have been?

[Woodsheal]

Those multi-tabbed "ghillies" are not really correct for the Jacobite period (ghillies were people, not shoes!). The Highland moccasin ("cuarans") looked like these:



Highland women mostly went barefoot. (There's are descriptions of clanswomen walking barefoot to church carrying their shoes, only slipping them on before entering the building!) For modern reenactment purposes, the ladies can wear the same moccasin-type footwear, or if higher up in the clan's economic structure, "hard" shoes like these:

http://jas-townsend.com/product_info...roducts_id=953