ghillie brogues

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Ghillie brogues are a mostly worn formally but brown is a casual color.

Ahh, so many questions, so little time. I wear brown shoes as regularly as black shoes in the same style. I just coordinate with the colors of the outfit, so I am still not sure why ghillies in brown with matching sporran, shirt, belt, etc. would be casual and not the same match in black.

[Riverkilt]

Still hoping I, or someone else, will find Ghillie Brogues in widths to fit a Celtic man's foot. Need at least a 4E.

Beginning to think no one has taken the time to measure the true width of a man's foot. They sell these narrow sizes as if we'll somehow cram our foot in them.

Maybe, someone out there make them....thought I'd heard of one place once, but its lost in the fog of my besotted brain pan...

Ron

[davedove]

Ahh, so many questions, so little time. I wear brown shoes as regularly as black shoes in the same style. I just coordinate with the colors of the outfit, so I am still not sure why ghillies in brown with matching sporran, shirt, belt, etc. would be casual and not the same match in black.

Traditionally, brown was day wear and black was evening wear. While there has been some relaxing of that, such that black is often worn casually, formal wear is still black.

Additionally, since ghillies have come to be the standard for formal wear, they are expected to be black.

It's a matter of perception I think. To me, brown ghillies could be worked into something like a dancer's outfit. But since I don't care for ghillies anyway, I certainly wouldn't wear them casually.

[highlander_Daz]

Toad these are the ones I wear, they are very very god and very comfortable, Ive used advance Highland many thimes and never been dissopointed

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Finest-Quality...QQcmdZViewItem

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Thanks for the clarifications all. I can see that black is definitely a more formal color and given that ghillies are usually worn formally, I now understand the original comment.

Note to self, no brown ghillies after 5:00 and no white kilts after Labor day... :-D