Advice Needed-Brogues for Formal Wear

[michael steinrok]

I agree, go with the real leather. To me, and this is just MHO, patent leather is far and away too ostentatious. I wore them in the military but only for inspections. I found they caused my feet to be overly hot and prespire...lots. If you really want to dress up the shoes go with the wingtips.

Besides, anything that shines and reflects that much would be indecent under a kilt.

Mike

Okay thay's just funny

[michael steinrok]

My buddy just added it might be appropriate to wear patent leather if you wore christmas lights under the kilt . You can put the battery pack in the sporran and a motion detector in the pleats. Thjat way the wind blows the lights come on and you're a real flasher. O.K it's his idea.

[Eujeankilt]

I got the real leather brogues. They're Deer Stags Sevilles. $49 to my door.

http://www.6pm.com/deer_stags/mens_seville/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=31292&colorid=9754_663&NDA=N-4009+300363|Ne-300|Nao-12

I haven't worn them yet, but they fit and look great.


Dale

[switchblade5984]

those look very nice, and a great price! yeh it rhymed

[chacbalam]

Unless you are a piper make sure that you are not wearing pure white hose. Go for the off-white or cream istead.

[Sherry]

My husband wears wingtips with his suits. Here they say "businessman." I definitely prefer the wingtips to plain shoes for formal wear with the kilt.

I'd think federal agents would have plain shoes. But maybe you have more experience, Bubba. :razz: ;-)

[bubba]

Well, I can't stand wingtips. Reminds me of a school guidance councellor I never could stand.As for federal agents, they just wear cheap suits and, yeah, lots of em wear wingtips.

[scoutniagara]

I spent all of my time in the military spit-polishing my shoes. My son, just used acrylic floor polish, and they looked just like patent-leather shoes.

[thescot]

I wish I'd thought of that thing about not wearing patent leather with a kilt!

You can buy a pretty good pair of black dress shoes at any discount shoe outlet. If you're going to wear them for other occassions (i.e., UN-kilted), buy a really good pair of oxfords--captoe, wingtip, plain toe, moc toe--it doesn't really matter. I prefer the heavy look of wingtip brogues, but that's a personal precference.

I wear a pair of wing tip loafers with tassles and kilties with my tweed argyle jacket and with the charlie. With polish like I learned in the Corps, they look great.

Steer clear of patent leather. Too dressy for an argyle jacket, really, and unless you drop a big wad, they'll probably be cheap and hot on your feet.

[PiobBear]

Black wingtips; all leather. Patent leather is appropriate wiith formal wear, but too much with an Argyll (and as they don't breathe, your feet stew in them).