Highland Games

[EagleJCS]

I do actually have Sperry Boots, haha and they're comfortable as can be!

If the conditions are muddy, the sperry boots would probably be OK. Similar to wearing wellies (Wellington boots). Wear some kilt hose or long socks (not knee high athletic/tube socks, though).

I don't have any shoes for the kilt and it's going to be muddy there. I want to dress casual with a kilt but not look stupid how much are brogues? I will see where I can buy them!

Ghillie brogues are a style of dress shoe worn with the kilt. They look like wingtips, but have very long laces and no tongue. The cost will vary some, but like dress shoes, most run about US$100 and up. The shoes are absolutely not necessary for wearing with the kilt. Any regular dress shoe will do, when you're dressing up with the kilt. You'll find in reading through the threads on here, even in the traditional section, that most kilt wearers don't wear ghillies (or even like them), outside of the pipers and a few others. There is an art to tying the laces without looking like you're a Roman gladiator with the long sandal thongs (?) running up your legs. I've written a couple of posts describing how I do it, but then, I'm a piper in a pipe band.

Most folks I've seen dressing 'casually' in the kilt will still wear some type of shoe a little dressier than cross-trainers or other athletic shoes, though some do go for a low boot/hiker with scrunched-down socks/hose. In hot weather, I've seen sandals worn, without hose (if it's hot enough to wear sandals, it's hot enough to go without the hose). Done that myself on occasion when temps go north of 90F and the humidity is close to the same number.

Best thing is to get out there and not worry too much about what other people think about your choice of footwear.