Readers;
Let me be the "Voice of Doom" here and ask: Ghille Brouges were made to be laced, to make them fit and function. Buckles were made to close the lachets on a 'normal shoe'(originally the style from Samuel Pepys to about Napoleon B.) So, why would you do BOTH on one pair of shoes? It is rather like tying your sneakers and then looping Velcro thru the strings.
I will allow that circa 2012 Ghille Brogues look very much like a 'normal shoe' but they retain the tie method, and the lacing style on the shoe(and the lack of tounge)but a buckle is- sorry, no other way to say it, redundant.
Am I alone here, on this thought?
As Ever
CSA