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Brogue Ghillies from Lobb

Brogue Ghillie wearing sisters

Living: The brogue gillie. The Scots eschewed
the tongue which was thought to catch mud and
weigh the shoe down. Popular among the daughters
of English country squires in the 1930s.
For more on the brogue see Belt and Braces.

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