Ghillie brogues - why the dislike and resentment..?

[Jock Scot]

That's just the comings and goings of fashion.

I well remember when the gleaming pure white hose first appeared on the feet of some of the world's top Pipe Bands and they were suddenly the height of fashion, with all the bands scrambling to get them.

Then inevitably the wheel of fashion turned and the world's top Pipe Band suddenly switched to black hose, and if your band was wearing white you were announcing to everyone that you were living under a rock.

Be around long enough and you see these repeated 20-year cycles, just as you do in the world of non-Highland fashion.

I have never been convinced that traditional highland attire, in Scotland, has ever seriously followed pipe band fashions. For sure some might ,but certainly in the Highlands here in Scotland I do not see THCD being guided by what pipe bands are wearing and never have. Perhaps the kilt hire industry might be? I really don't know.