Appropriate Footwear

[DWFII]

Well, I'm not an expert (although I do have some specialized knowledge about shoes and shoemaking) but it seems to me that there is a deep contradiction...maybe even a dissonance when it comes to the subject of proper highland wear for a given period.

As I understand it the earliest kilts may date back no further than the late 16th century...which may make the wearing of the ghillie brogue forerunners with a kilt (even a great kilt) something of an anachronism, if not pure fancy.

But more to the point of "Jacobite"...if the term Jacobite is meant to refer to the risings of the early and middle 18th century (including Culloden), then the most likely footwear would indeed be a buckle shoe. The buckle shoe is nearly THE man's shoe from the mid 18th to the early 19th century.

A Civil War brogue would again be an anachronism but a Revolutionary War shoe would not.

So there's another 2¢ for the kitty...

PS...just as an aside there is literally no (zero) evidence (and quite a bit to the contrary) for anything resembling a heel on any shoe (including women's shoes) prior to the late 16th century.

[macneighill]

A Civil War brogue would again be an anachronism but a Revolutionary War shoe would not.

Being a Civil War reenactor, I have a few different pairs of period shoes (replicas) and, they really don't fit the "Jacobite" era. Mostly what I have are some type of oxford. These are what Officers mostly wore. The enlistedmen usually wore brogans. So, I would have to agree on the colonial era buckle shoe.