Are you REALLY Celtic?

[Riverkilt]

Yup, same length toes.

AND wide feet. What I CANNOT understand is WHY ghillie brogue makers make their brogues in NARROW sizes.

Doesn't anyone research the obvious???

Rant Rave!

Its bad enough few shoes are made in wide sizes anymore...like us wide footed Scots are supposed to go barefoot...but for TRADITIONAL wear you'd think they'd make the brogues in TRADTIONAL foot sizes.

They gotta be missing a LOT of sales... and wondering why their brogues don't sell.

HELLO ghillie brogue makers....I need a 4E minimum please - and that's gonna be snug on me with kilt hose.

Sulking off to nourish a resentment....

Ron

[kevinkinney]

9.5EE No Ebay deals for me. LL Bean and Danner are my friends though..

Big toes shorter on both feet. Gibbon arms.

Reddish brown beard, but only on the neck. The remainder never comes in.

Too bad my mom slipped some Hungarian and Slovak into me, or I'd be 6'2" or taller like all the others. Atleast 5'10" is the tallest on her side.

Huge skull.

My boy lucked out. He popped out with red hair just like his mom. Now it's blonde. Same feet as me, just smaller. Big noggin too.



Kevin out.

[Bob C]

Yup, same length toes.

What I CANNOT understand is WHY ghillie brogue makers make their brogues in NARROW sizes.

So people like me can wear them?

[Cerebite]

My grandmother was born in Glasgow (Scotland, not Kentucky). And my second toes are also bigger than the big ones. So I feel secure in claiming that I am a Celt.

My grandmother was born and raised in Glasgow KY and I have all of the Celtic characteristics [red hair, wide feet with high arches, long middle toe]

...Now to throw a monkey wrench into the toe thing. The trait of having a "big" or first toe shorter than the next is not being linked to anything Celtic. It is being linked to the H Haploid genetic group. These are only one group of peoples who came north from the Middle East, split into two with one going into the Balkans and one across the northern Mediterranean Sea. The Peoples who settled in the British Isles after the last Ice age arrived from the Atlantic seaboard of France. Before that they were in the Basque region of Spain. and before that N. Italy.

Interesting that you say that as I have done extensive genealogical research and have NO Celtic lines per se. Of the four lines one has been in N America for almost four centuries, two are from Germany, and the most recent [1910] is from Croatia which is where I think I got my "celtic" characteristics.

That being said I am obviously channeling some ancient genetic memory with my love of all things celtic and anglican including recently taking up kilt wearing part time.

[auld argonian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Celts_800-400BC.PNG

Best

AA

[ccga3359]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Celts_800-400BC.PNG

Best

AA

I'm from the pink bit just east of Hamish.

[floridaredhead]

Given the information I've picked up re: Celtic and Norwegian history, I always thought the red-headed gene originated with the Germanic and/or Scandinavian people. They brought that gene to Scotland and Britain and anywhere else their boats took them.

:scratches red hair:

PS: My ancestry is a mix of Celto-Germanic.