Those slippers you show are a more elegant version of mine.

MoR's comments remind me of a very funny sequence in the movie version of Tristram Shandy, in which heel height becomes an issue.


I do have some calfskin pumps which I sometimes wear with the kilt, but I am content to leave them with a bow instead of a buckle. I like the look of the buckle, mind, but an old sweetheart was crazy about a shoe famously made by Roger Vivier and worn by Catherine DeNeuve. She called them Pilgrim Flats and thought they were swell. Were I to put a square buckle on my calfskin pumps, they would look a great deal like her Vivier flats. I am ready to defend either the grosgrain bow or the Jolly Roger, but I ain't no pilgrim, Pilgrim...

For those who must have just a little more tartan, at least one company will make up the "Albert" style dinner slipper in your tartan fabric. If wearing them with a kilt, though, I suspect you would want to balance the outfit with a tartan sweatband at the forehead...



http://www.shiptonandheneage.co.uk/c...rs-2559-0.html


(It does also come in a number of plain black versions that might look good with those buckles- and not a bit like Catherine DeNeuve...)

http://www.shiptonandheneage.co.uk/l...rs-2362-0.html