Ghillie brogues, yes or no?

[Phil]

As for sexual stereotyping...weel, laddie I think everyone on this forum would attach some sort of gender reference to what is or is not men's clothing. For instance, it has been said a great many times--ad infinitum, ad nauseum--that the kilt is an article of men's clothing. I don't think it implies any sort of hang up to be consistent in that perspective.

First can I thank you for your compliment. It is the sincerest form of flattery, I am sure, and it is many a long year since anybody called me a "laddie". You describe yourself as a shoemaker of some 35 years and I must obviously defer to your age and experience in your craft. What I must not defer to, however, is your blinkered and unsupported assumption that the buckle brogues I described cannot be comfortable. Might I suggest that you actually obtain a pair and try them before making such unfounded assertions which actually have no basis in reality. As to sexual stereotyping, you are of course correct that the kilt is indeed an article of men's clothing, and nobody on this forum would disagree with this. However, at the same time you glibly sidestep any explanation of your previous assertion that buckle brogues are only for little girls (you call them Mary Janes) which was the point of what I said. If you genuinely do have such opinions then at least have the courage to say so.