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View Poll Results: Ghillie brogues
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24th September 08, 04:12 AM
#11
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24th September 08, 04:48 AM
#12
I like the look!! Casual, probably not. With anything from "Business casual" and up-definately.
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24th September 08, 05:43 AM
#13
I love brogues (wing tips here in the USA) but I really don't like ghilli brogues. Too costumey for my tastes. That being said, I don't mind seeing them on pipe band members. They are wearing a uniform after all and ghilli brogues seem appropriate in that context.
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24th September 08, 05:45 AM
#14
Not a fan, but I have yet to see anything better for a formal or semi-formal kilted occasion....
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24th September 08, 05:59 AM
#15
I don't care for them but they do have their place.
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. - Fred Bear
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24th September 08, 06:04 AM
#16
I don't like them...if someone else does, 'sok with me.
But as a shoemaker, I am not convinced that they really have any place in traditional Sottish dress, except maybe for piping. You would not have seen anything like a ghillie brogue at Culloden or anywhere through the 18th, 19th or even early 20th century.
Ancienne Alliance started a thread about old photos in the "Show us your pics" area and I've yet to see a pair of ghillie brogues being worn in those photos...maybe I missed something. But show me evidence of ghillie brogues being worn pre-1930, say, and I'll change my mind.
Last edited by DWFII; 24th September 08 at 07:04 AM.
Reason: punctuation/spelling
DWFII--Traditionalist and Auld Crabbit
In the Highlands of Central Oregon
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24th September 08, 06:08 AM
#17
I think they look cool with their laces tied the way they are. I'd probably only wear then with formal or perhaps semi formal attire.
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24th September 08, 06:26 AM
#18
I've worn them once, so I'm holding my opinion. But I think for me formal, semi-formal may be the only times in the future. Still looking for the "right" pair of shoes. currently have been wearing black penny loafers to complete my "nicer" outfits, the little tassles match the sporran.
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24th September 08, 06:27 AM
#19
I didn't have a good pair of ghillies for many years wearing the kilt and I always felt that I wasn't quite "dressed". Since I've gotten them, I like them and haven't looked back.
However, they aren't the most comfortable shoes, but only wearing the occasionaly dosen't help them break in!
T.
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24th September 08, 06:59 AM
#20
I like the way they complete the outfit but like any thing else you don't have to wear them to look great.
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