Ghillie brogues - why the dislike and resentment..?

[OC Richard]

I'm certain I have linked to this page before. The part about the early evolution of the shoe, from the "deerskin moccasins" to what we know today is interesting.

Thing is, they don't offer any evidence to prove a continuance of use during which the foot-covering of unknown appearance described in the 1542 John Elder letter evolved, through stages of development documented in iconography, into the heavy-soled hobnailed brogue which appears in Victorian times.

And various articles have shown that same old shoe which has a seam down the top. I looked it up, it was found in a cave in Armenia. Why multiple articles about the history of Ghillies shows an Armenian shoe, who can say.

For sure there's plenty of folk shoes from the Carpathian Krpec to the Balkan Opanak to the Aran Islands' Pamputai but these do not constitute iconographic evidence of use of something similar in the Highlands.