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    Quote Originally Posted by jsrnephdoc View Post
    Here is the first place I've read that Ghillie Brogues evolved from quickly-draining (tongueless, laced up the calf footwear that servants of landowners wore to carry their masters over marshes and peat bogs). Is that not the case?
    That is the idea behind them but they are in fact a 19th century invention.

    I've also been told that the contemporary kilt evolved from the shepherd's "great kilt" only in the 19th century, stimulated actually by newfound English tolerance for Scots wearing kilts (but stimulated more by interest in financial gain from selling them rather than from any penance or regret for precipitating the "cleansing" after Culloden.
    The belted plaid or feileadh mor (note, the term great kilt is a recent US invention) was never Scottish dress, it was the basic garment of the highlander in the 17th to mid-18th centuries. And it was the British, not English, government that imposed and repealed the Dress Act. There was no wholesale cleansing after Culloden although certain Jacobite supporting areas of the Highlands such a Mull and Lochaber did suffer reprisals after the Rising.

    I've also been told that if one is walking down a street in Scotland and encounters a man wearing a kilt, there are a few most probable reasons:
    1. He's an American, Canadian, or Australian tourist (most likely)
    2. He's on his way to or way home from a wedding or graduation
    3. He works in a kilt shop
    There are a few of us that wear a kilt on a more regular basis. For some reason, some tourists seem to think that we're some sort of living history players that gives them the right to stop us and demand photos.

    Is the origin story of the Sgian Dubh tucked into one's kilt hose (that it told a host being visited that the guest had no evil intent, rather than keeping the little knife tucked into one's armpit.

    Is THAT untrue?
    More romanticised nonsense I'm afraid. The sgian dubh was a Highland Revival attribution. The earliest example is from a portrait of 1812.

    If Ghillie Brogues are NOT appropriate for wearing to formal events, where ARE they appropriate, and why do the kilt shops always display and sell them. And, if not Ghillie Brogues, what DOES one wear to a formal event while wearing a kilt.
    I'm not a fan of Ghillie Brogues, have never worn them and never will. For evening wear I prefer buckle brogues.

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