Quote Originally Posted by DWFII View Post
Our own Matt Newsome says, or implies...if I am reading his correctly...that ghillies (as we know them) were "invented" for pipers.

I might add just for the entertainment in looking at a similar impasse, that there is, according to the most respected and foremost shoe historians in the world, NO documentation and NO evidence for heels (as we know them) on shoes prior to the third quarter of the 16th century. About the time of kilts, actually. Yet pseudo-historians, less than stringent re-enactors, and Hollywood, insist on depicting knights in heeled boots, or early 19th C. ship's captains wearing riding boots at sea.

Might as well be wearing a wristwatch.
Spot on.