Best brogues for the best price?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I'm not quite sure I understand the xenophobia (shopophobia?) that seems to attach to products traditionally made in the United Kingdom, but now made elsewhere... Chinese made Doc Martens, for example. I can understand it when the item thus (or should that be there) produced is shoddy, cheap, and nasty. But when quality remains unchanged (or superior as in the case of the Rolls-Royce motorcars built at the Rolls-Royce factory in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the 1920s) then I don't think it matters a whit as to where the goods are made.

That said, Doc Martens really aren't appropriate for wear with formal Highland attire.