If I had a pair of those, I'd wear them for dress occasions, in a heart beat!Originally Posted by DWFII
Interestingly enough there are numerous Scots terms for shoe making tools and techniques which, while obscure today are still recognized. "Yark" or "yerk," "whang" and "fit fang," "pykin awl," "yickie-yeckie" and even an old Scots word for shoemaker--"snob" (or snab).
If nothing else they're fun to say in a broad Scots dialect.
And while I'm at it and we're talking about shoes to wear with a kilt,...
What about buckle shoe such as might have been worn in Jacobean times? Does anyone, or would anyone, wear something similar anywhere outside of a ren-faire?
I've seen some modern interpretations that I thought were quite handsome all by themselves nevermind the Scots association. Something like this:
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