There was a thread a month or two ago about folks looking for brown ghillie brogues, and I chimed in that I had ordered a pair that had not yet arrived, but promised to review them when they did. Well they came a couple weeks ago but yesterday was my first chance to get them out and take them for a bit of a walk.

They are a budget end of the scale leather upper, tannish-light brown finish, with composite soles, and decent quality laces. I bought them online from Heritage of Scotland (wait for the boos and hisses to abate) where I still haunt the website occasionally looking for exceptional bargains on decent items. I paid $25 US including shipping, after I got about a $10 discount from their already sale price of $35, down from their normal $70 or so. Was not expecting a whole lot, but wanted a pair of brown to wear with my other brown leather gear for semi-dress day wear when my brown Merrells just were not dressy enough. I was very pleased with the appearence and quality of what I got when they arrived, and here are my pictures. They are lighter in color than most of teh rest of my brown leather stuff so I will likely have to throw on a coat of darker brown shoe polish to get a match. Their fit and finish is comparable to my leather over leather black ones I acquired a year ago from an American vendor for nearly $100. I think I got a pretty good deal, regardless of where they came from.