There is some confusion about what is being talked about when the term "buckle brogues" is bandied about.

If you are referring to the shoe with the buckle low on the foot...over the "treadline"/joint area...and which have an additional small strap and small buckle at the ankle, well, I personally don't like them. I much prefer the 18th century buckle shoe.--what I call a "Jacobite shoe" although they would have been pretty common in all of the UK and the colonies.

That said, I am a shoe and bootmaker by trade (35 years)...and I got into a slightly heated discussion here with someone about buckle brogues and whether they could possibly be comfortable with that buckle mounted over the very area where the shoe has to flex. To this day I still don't see how it could be comfortable...the mechanics of it raise all sorts of alarums for me...but it wouldn't be the first time I was mistaken about something. Quite obviously, the buckle brogue has been worn, in pretty much its current form, for decades, maybe even a hundred years.

Since I've never owned a pair, never even tried a pair on, I must apologize to the other participants in that earlier thread...I yield to first hand experience and should have done so earlier.

Nevertheless, they are a little too fru-fru for my tastes...just my personal opinion.