my new highland shoes
Here's a pair of neo-Georgian or neo-Jacobite style shoes I just finished...in time for my daughter's wedding this weekend (phew!!).
They are meant to evoke (not mimic) the period between the mid-18th and early 19th century.
I make shoes like this....made to measure, fully lined and constructed with the finest materials I can get my hands on and the best techniques I know. These are modern, top shelf shoes but proportioned pretty much like the historic shoes. The buckle is full functional and a reproduction of authentic period buckles.
I was glad to finish them and got lucky as intuition told me to make a little allowance for kilt socks (I didn't have any when I started the shoes). My new Gaelic Themes fit fine in the shoe.

DWFII--Traditionalist and Auld Crabbit
In the Highlands of Central Oregon
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