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    I'm torn on those.
    They're not a bad way to give a nod to ghillie brogues while being versatile.
    But unless someone's really looking (and also knows what to look for) they wouldn't realize what those are, and I feel like that kind of defeats the purpose.
    Maybe the tongue should be a different color to make the ghillie lacing stand out more. Or maybe that would just make them look bizarre.
    We're told by people here with the creds to know that "Ghillie Brogues" are NOT a descendent from tongueless shoes worn by 16th century Scottish servants while carrying their bosses across swampy peat bogs (the absence of tongues supposedly made them drain quickly). I don't know the real story, but the absence of tongues are the defining element, the lacing up the calf a derivative of that, and the fake punctures on the toe cap apparently a total fabrication of the Sobieski Stuarts or a Victorian era shoemaker they tasked with dreaming them up.

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