Interesting buckle shoes

[longhuntr74]

Very cool....I can envision someday that I might wear my Fugawee 18th century buckle shoes with my kilt for formal wear! These shoes referenced here I think would be casual at best...but that's just my humble opinion.

[macwilkin]

I will vouch for the quality of Missouri Boot & Shoe's products, as I own a pair of their federal issue brogans. Bob Serio has a very good reputation among authentic reenactors & living historians, and he himself has been a reenactor for many years. The battlefield where I worked had a number of his products in our living history stores.

His shop is just down the road from me in Neosho, Missouri, the home of Camp Crowder, aka "Camp Swampy" for you Beetle Bailey fans.

Regards,

Todd

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

"Very cool....I can envision someday that I might wear my Fugawee 18th century buckle shoes with my kilt for formal wear!" These shoes referenced here I think would be casual at best...but that's just my humble opinion.

No need to be humble when you're right. These are reenactor's shoes, and as such are meant to be worn as part of a reenactor's costume.

Buckle shoes can be, and indeed are, worn with formal Highland attire. However, formal buckle shoes are of a much lighter weight and more finely crafted than those shoes intended to be worn tramping around outdoors.

[longhuntr74]

My buckle shoes are made of relatively thin leather...believe they would work fine for dress footwear...I don't typically wear them at reenactments as my typical attire is moccassins, deerskin leggings, a loincloth, and a shirt or two. I really only bought them to complete my outfit on the rare occasions that I present myself as a proper gentleman...cocked hat, coat, neck stock and everything...and that is very rarely! People always get a big kick out of my nose ring when they find out I'm an Army Officer in real life (it's one of those fake cross-bit pieces made to look like I have a pierced septum...great conversation piece....but I digress...didn't mean to sidetrack the discussion!!!!!

[macwilkin]

No need to be humble when you're right. These are reenactor's shoes, and as such are meant to be worn as part of a reenactor's costume.

Buckle shoes can be, and indeed are, worn with formal Highland attire. However, formal buckle shoes are of a much lighter weight and more finely crafted than those shoes intended to be worn tramping around outdoors.

And I would bet Bob himself would echo those sentiments.

T.

[Woodsheal]

I really wasn't thinking formal, but more in line with the tweed jacket and vest look - which is rather 19th century-ish anyways, eh? Good, sturdy brogues are quite in line with that look, as it is an "outdoorsy" one primarily, and these are lighter weight civvy shoes, not soldiers' bootees....