Quote Originally Posted by JRB View Post
Alright, I'll change my opinion of Ghilli brogues from too "costumey" to too Brigadoonish (or Brigadoony, if you will). I feel the same way about jacobite shirts and wearing a pipers dirk or baskethilt. All traditional. All not to my liking.
Perhaps we are branching out from the original thread? If that's where this is going, we need to be cautious and recognise that we are talking about many quite different societies in this forum. In Western Canada you will see ghillie brogues often in the evening and bonnets, sometimes, during the day -- quite acceptable; never, never will you see dirks, claymores, broadswords or pheasant feathers -- they are not "traditional" there. In Scotland you wiill see ghillie brogues about as frequently in the evening, but rarely a bonnet during the day (except by those who are rightfully wearing eagle feathers), and never, never any edged thingme except an ornamental sgian dubh.

Scotus is quite right. What is seen as "costumey" or, if you will, "Brigadooney" in both places is anything that is a deliberate attempt to dress in another era. Ghillie brogues don't fall into that category even though they are something of a throwback themelves. Everyone to his own, of course, but we do need to recognise that what is traditional, or "costumey", in one place may not be traditional or "Brigadooney" in another.