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    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.
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    Not a fan, but I have yet to see anything better for a formal or semi-formal kilted occasion....

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    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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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DWFII View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by bowser View Post
    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?
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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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    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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    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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    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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