Ghillie style shoes

[Ryan Ross]

Interestingly enough there are numerous Scots terms for shoe making tools and techniques which, while obscure today are still recognized. "Yark" or "yerk," "whang" and "fit fang," "pykin awl," "yickie-yeckie" and even an old Scots word for shoemaker--"snob" (or snab).

If nothing else they're fun to say in a broad Scots dialect.

And while I'm at it and we're talking about shoes to wear with a kilt,...

What about buckle shoe such as might have been worn in Jacobean times? Does anyone, or would anyone, wear something similar anywhere outside of a ren-faire?

I've seen some modern interpretations that I thought were quite handsome all by themselves nevermind the Scots association. Something like this:

If I had a pair of those, I'd wear them for dress occasions, in a heart beat!