casual kilts & footwear

[emolas]

Sandals, Vans, barefoot... I just wear whatever I feel like wearing. Meaning the kilt has no bearing on my choice in footwear.

[oldsoldier]

Jump boots are out. My old black jungle boots have seen better days, and I have been considering bronzing them, so they are out too. Docs I am leaning toward more, even though they are a holdover of my younger days. I am 36, and dont particularly want to be seen as an over-the-hill guy trying to relive his youth (I know, 36 isnt that old, but, you know where I'm going).
I really like those sandals from payless that were posted earlier, I am gonna swing by & see if they have any this weekend. Barring that, its most likely gonna be docs or sandals. Thanks for all the replies folks.
Guess I'm a little more self conscious than I thought I would be, first time wearing a kilt & all.

[pdcorlis]

I generally wear Keens. Great shoes and they look like a modern gillie.

Yeah - what he said...

[NancyMan]

Docs are the bomb if you want to dress up yer casual. I've got two pair of docs, both are two-tone (white/black) brogues. Less dressy finds me in Italian buckle-up leather shoes. I've never been a sneaker guy and can't quite see wearing running shoes with a kilt, but that's just me. I have been known to pair red deck shoes with my black Stewart Sportkilt. For true casual I wear sandles and no hose. I have a couple of pair of gnarly vibram sole boots that also see duty. Scrunching my socks just seems, well, sloppy to me. (Though it looks fine on other guys, I hasten to add.) I wear short and sometimes folded down short socks depending on the footwear.

[turpin]

Born leather sandals with sox have a nice ghillie-like effect. Lately with my UK I've been wearing flip-flops. Keens and Tevas work well too

[Riverkilt]

Tevas work for me. That's my U.S. Army semi-trad from Rocky and Kelly. Up in some canyon narrows in Utah near Cottonwood Wash.

Not sure where you live, but its gettin' HOT in a lot of places in the Northern Hemisphere!



Gotta get a tan on them WHITE pegs of mine.

Ron

[RK-REX]

........... dont particularly want to be seen as an over-the-hill guy trying to relive his youth (I know, 36 isnt that old, but, you know where I'm going).

Um...dude? You are wearing a kilt. You are already not conforming to the rules. No one is going to notice the fact that you're 36 and wearing Docs. They're from the old days, as are mine, their Grandfathered in. We wore them before they were cool. I believe the correct term is OG.

If it makes you feel better, my wife is 35 and has about a dozen pairs of Docs in every shape and color right up to 21 eyelet, knee high, tall healed type units and she wears them regularly.

Age is a state of mind and we don't always need to feel and act in a way such that is dictated by the number of rings we have if we were to be cut in half and had them counted. You see those pictures of the elderly acting like kids when they are in their retirement. I can assure you that they don't "think" they are as old as their years.

[turpin]

What he said. We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing (Ben Franklin?)

Do what you want ans say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind (Dr. Suess)

[SoldierSpike]

I like to wear a pair of Corcoran jump boots when I go casual in my kilt. They look great (especially with a kilt) but aren't the world's most comfortable footwear.

Then try the Corcoran Field boots, much more comfy, and better traction, with almost the same look!

Marc

[escherblacksmith]

I have 2 pairs of shoes I wear 99% of the time. Both go with my utilikilt.

1 pair of Ecco hikers
1 pair of birkenstock Milano's (gotta have the strap in the back)
both with socks and without.