Highland Dress Catalogs

**bookish** · Today, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by kilted2000

I have a few I could post pictures of. Most from the 1930s.

Rowan’s 1938
WM Andersons and Sons uncertain date 20s-30s
Paisley Limited 1939

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**bookish** · Today, 05:37 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

The c1930 Lawrie catalogue (one of the illustrations is dated 1926) shows the standard buckle brogue (centre) and on the right a style which also appears in MacLeay, halfway between a Ghillie and a Mary Jane...

That is actually an interesting concept for a shoe. I'd like to see more footwear designs for Highland wear. There is an image of Alexander McQueen and Sarah Jessica Parker from 2006, I think, and McQueen is wearing a tongue-less, lace up boot. I am not sure that the Ghillie/Mary Jane hybrid as it is presented is something that I would wear, but I think it could become an interesting slipper type shoe.

**OC Richard** · Today, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by bookish

I'd like to see more footwear designs for Highland wear. There is an image of Alexander McQueen and Sarah Jessica Parker from 2006, I think, and McQueen is wearing a tongue-less, lace up boot.

In Victorian times there was far more variety in the designs of shoes, of hose, of sporrans, of jackets, of bonnets. Highland Dress got far more standardised following WWI.

Here are four interesting Victorian shoes. Note the one top right, the photo isn't the best but you can see it's basically a Ghillie that comes up far higher than normal.

People who haven't studied Victorian photos, when they see such things in MacLeay, accuse him of just making stuff up.