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    Quote Originally Posted by The Barry View Post
    I believe that the real discrepancy is in how we are defining the term "traditional" to ourselves. Some are going to look towards the military, some (myself included) are going to look away from the military due to certain cultural/political/ancestral tendencies.

    I would like to know exactly where and when the buckle brogue came into fashion. Does anybody know?
    Oh, if not Jacobean, then at least from the Caroline or Restoration era, so for about 400 years.

    But I guess it depends what style of buckled brogues you are asking about!

    Sandford MacLean
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