Ghillie brogues, yes or no?

[DWFII]

YEESH! Those are good-looking nowadays? Wow, my foot would never fit into those. And why are they so pointy? They don't even look like shoes...

Like Riverkilt said, why doesn't somebody make a good shoe for my wide Celtic feet?

Well first off, remember that these are "bespoke." That means that they would be made to your foot and your specifications. The fact that they are narrow looking and pointy is simply....first, the maker has chosen the narrow ones to display. That's a common enough practice when photographing shoes or boots. Something about the proportions of a narrow shoe always looks better than a wide shoe. And second, the fashion in Europe these days, in haute couture, is the long narrow square toe. That too will pass. You need to look past those minor and variable details to the workmanship and the styling. Finally, these are more continental in styling than would be found at a West End London maker such as John Lobb, St. James Place. http://www.johnlobbltd.co.uk/main/main.htm

As a bespoke maker myself, I admire Gaziano and Girling quite a bit, but I wouldn't necessarily make shoes with that pointy a toe and certainly not for myself. That said, it bears repeating that a bespoke maker is going to put whatever toe you want on a shoe. I'm making a pair of shoes for a fellow kilt wearer even now that have a wide round toe but it easily could have been a wide square toe to wear with a kilt.

But when you are looking at off-the-rack, you'll never, ever find something to fit your wide feet. And I've yet to see a ghillie brogue offered by a high end bespoke maker...they're most often made (and priced) like a low end Allen Edmonds here in the states.

I guess you get what you pay for...$700+ for a kilt, $150-200 for shoes???!! And you guys with "wide, Celtic" feet?! Tsk!