Ghillie brogues - why the dislike and resentment..?

[Troglodyte]

How about this?

Nothing in the article most of us don't already know, but it's interesting to note it shows a ghillie brogue which it tells us is ...a modern Brogue exactly one hundred years old...

Yeah, so what, you say.

This cutting is in a museum archive bound volume of articles published in 1933..!

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Scottish Encylopedia brogue.jpg

[Troglodyte]

Like a cunning lawyer who wants the muddle the minds of the jury, I now present to Exhibit B...

Prince of Wales (DoW) Highland dress.jpg

Who better than HRH Prince of Wales (later to become Duke of Windsor in exchange for his kingdom) in a stylish and natty rigoot that dates from slap bang in the middle of the TCHD benchmark era. Notice his footwear. Who here is brave enough to fault him..?

I added this same pic on another thread, as a kind of historic and TCHD validation of the splendid shepherd-check kilt-hose Figheadair has posted recently, as it goes to show that the style-leaders of a century ago are still strides ahead when it comes to setting sartorial standards.

So it's good to see our own Figheadair is keeping pace with them..!

[Jock Scot]

Like a cunning lawyer who wants the muddle the minds of the jury, I now present to Exhibit B...

Prince of Wales (DoW) Highland dress.jpg

Who better than HRH Prince of Wales (later to become Duke of Windsor in exchange for his kingdom) in a stylish and natty rigoot that dates from slap bang in the middle of the TCHD benchmark era. Notice his footwear. Who here is brave enough to fault him..?

I added this same pic on another thread, as a kind of historic and TCHD validation of the splendid shepherd-check kilt-hose Figheadair has posted recently, as it goes to show that the style-leaders of a century ago are still strides ahead when it comes to setting sartorial standards.

So it's good to see our own Figheadair is keeping pace with them..!

The Duke of Windsor was a frivolous man, who, as with many things, he demonstrated well. His attire often demonstrated that fact perfectly.

[OC Richard]

Scottish Encylopedia brogue.jpg

As is often the case there's no provenance given for either pair of shoes.

The photo of the purported ancient shoe ("rivilin") looks very much like the Armenian cave shoe that several articles on the origin of the Ghillie has shown, these articles implying that the shoe is connected with Scotland, which it isn't.

But that Armenia cave shoe was only found in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areni-1_shoe

So I wonder what shoe is in the photo.

Most articles about Ghillies also show Aran Islands pamputai again without mentioning their identity and letting be implied that they're ancient Highland shoes.