What kind of shoes did the Scots wear?
A. We assume that the woman wore the same as the men, which was a gillie, shoes with no tongues and long laces. The Gillie Brogue is named after the gillie, the traditional Scottish gamekeeper and outdoorsman. The only thing of mention about the women on this subject was of them going barefoot or wearing socks that they pleated to make their legs look cylindrical. Maybe the socks just fell down into pleats, or with the Scottish propensity to pleat, maybe they were pleated around the leg and tied at the top. The women most likely wore gillies when wearing the pleated socks. The womens gillies were thin-soled compared to the mens thick-soled version, designed for use in muddy fields.
