Quote Originally Posted by Allan Thomson View Post
Clearly you haven't looked properly or aren't widely enough informed or you would have realised the shoes which have inspired the modern ghillie brogues aren't unique to the Highlands, they were found in Scotland, Ireland, and Man.

Furthermore most portraits of highlanders contemporary with the 18th C or before show clearly those who could afford it tended to wear much the same shoe as their Lowland and English and continental contemporaries.
Why so aggressive and hostile?

I wonder if you have read my original post, because your insulting and provocative language suggests you either have not, or have failed to understand what was being asked. We would all find it more conclusive to sensible discussion if you were aware of what was being discussed, rather than launch straight into personal insult.

If you have been following this thread from the start, you will have realised early on that my query was to assess the like or otherwise of the ghillie-brogue - not to establish its antiquity or origin. All that I know full well, thank you.

So what have the portraits you mention have to do with anything? Nothing at all with this thread, unless you can find one with the sitter being quoted saying why he dislikes ghillies with his Highland dress, and thinks a modern city shoe far more preferable.

If you have a relevant comment to make, I, and I am sure others too, would be pleased to hear it, but please kindly leave anger and insult out of it.