View Poll Results: Ghillie brogues
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24th September 08, 05:43 AM
#1
I love brogues (wing tips here in the USA) but I really don't like ghilli brogues. Too costumey for my tastes. That being said, I don't mind seeing them on pipe band members. They are wearing a uniform after all and ghilli brogues seem appropriate in that context.
Jay
Clan Rose - Constant and True
"I cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins; In a brand new pair of brogues to ramble o'er the bogs and frighten all the dogs " - D. K. Gavan
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24th September 08, 05:45 AM
#2
Not a fan, but I have yet to see anything better for a formal or semi-formal kilted occasion....
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24th September 08, 05:59 AM
#3
I don't care for them but they do have their place.
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. - Fred Bear
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24th September 08, 06:04 AM
#4
I don't like them...if someone else does, 'sok with me.
But as a shoemaker, I am not convinced that they really have any place in traditional Sottish dress, except maybe for piping. You would not have seen anything like a ghillie brogue at Culloden or anywhere through the 18th, 19th or even early 20th century.
Ancienne Alliance started a thread about old photos in the "Show us your pics" area and I've yet to see a pair of ghillie brogues being worn in those photos...maybe I missed something. But show me evidence of ghillie brogues being worn pre-1930, say, and I'll change my mind.
Last edited by DWFII; 24th September 08 at 07:04 AM.
Reason: punctuation/spelling
DWFII--Traditionalist and Auld Crabbit
In the Highlands of Central Oregon
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24th September 08, 10:32 AM
#5
 Originally Posted by DWFII
I don't like them...if someone else does, 'sok with me.
But as a shoemaker, I am not convinced that they really have any place in traditional Sottish dress, except maybe for piping. You would not have seen anything like a ghillie brogue at Culloden or anywhere through the 18th, 19th or even early 20th century.
Ancienne Alliance started a thread about old photos in the "Show us your pics" area and I've yet to see a pair of ghillie brogues being worn in those photos...maybe I missed something. But show me evidence of ghillie brogues being worn pre-1930, say, and I'll change my mind.
being new to the board don't like to be a pain but a quick search and I found this which is a picture from 1869 quite clearly shows the figure on the right wearing gillie's
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24th September 08, 11:02 AM
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 Originally Posted by bowser
being new to the board don't like to be a pain but a quick search and I found this which is a picture from 1869 quite clearly shows the figure on the right wearing gillie's
That's great! I stand corrected. And, lo and behold, the two on the left are wearing Mary Janes...although the date is 1869--somewhat late for the buckle shoes I was talking about but no matter.
Thanks for posting that picture.
PS. What's the source for that painting/picture?
DWFII--Traditionalist and Auld Crabbit
In the Highlands of Central Oregon
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24th September 08, 11:17 AM
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http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Univ...ocus/victoria/
Maclachlan, Graham, Macfarlane & Calquhoun
(Loch Lomond, Ben Lomand from Luss, 1869)
I just did a search on John Brown (Queen Victoria)
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24th September 08, 06:08 AM
#8
I think they look cool with their laces tied the way they are. I'd probably only wear then with formal or perhaps semi formal attire.
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24th September 08, 06:27 AM
#9
I didn't have a good pair of ghillies for many years wearing the kilt and I always felt that I wasn't quite "dressed". Since I've gotten them, I like them and haven't looked back.
However, they aren't the most comfortable shoes, but only wearing the occasionaly dosen't help them break in!
T.
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24th September 08, 06:59 AM
#10
I'm actually rather partial to them w. a PC or semi-formal dress, or for piping (aesthetically only). Following Thompson's lead, I feel they clearly don't belong w. "white-tie" dress (Montrose doublet, etc.) when "Mary Jane" type shoes seem more appropriate, nor for casual wear when any good pair of shoes/boots will do nicely.
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