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    If you're willing to spring for the $$$, these are the closest looking "production" mocs available for replicating cuarans:
    http://www.arrowmoc.com/pt.html

    Otherwise, your best bet is to put together a center-seam moccasin kit, and cut off the side flaps:
    http://jas-townsend.com/product_info...roducts_id=246

    As I've oft-maintained in other threads, those "ghillie brogue" patterns, with the mulitple tabs, are simply not correct for the Jacobite period or earlier....
    Brian

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodsheal View Post
    IAs I've oft-maintained in other threads, those "ghillie brogue" patterns, with the mulitple tabs, are simply not correct for the Jacobite period or earlier....
    As an example of an inappropriate multiple-tab brogue, you mean like Medieval Moccasins?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Daw View Post
    As an example of an inappropriate multiple-tab brogue, you mean like Medieval Moccasins?
    Exactly! I think they're all based upon modern dancing "ghillie" shoes....
    Brian

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