Originally Posted by
MacKenzie
Wow that article is quite a hodgepodge.
It's tempting to make an evolutionary connection between the rough-and-ready footwear described in that old account and the Ghillie Brogues as we know them, which are first seen in Victorian times.
And for sure traditional folk footwear more or less like the Aran pamputai have long existed in Bulgaria and other European cultures, and it's tempting to make a connection between these various things and the Scottish Highland footwear described.
The trouble is, I've haven't seen any evidence demonstrating such evolutionary connections.
I would love to know more! But that article doesn't appear to add anything to our knowledge of the origin of the Victorian/modern Scottish Highland Ghillie Brogues.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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