Brown boots. I arsk you! Look at the feet at any folk gathering and you'll see what I mean. (Especially funerals of course.)

It's Aran, not Arran. As in the Aran Isles in Ireland, where, as I've heard it, someone who'd emigrated to the States send home a book of knitting patterns early last century, and the locals took up knitting them, and people assumed it was an ancient tradition. And the Clancy Brothers had an auntie who was into knitting sweaters for them, as aunties do sometimes, and they'd have hurt her feelings if they hadn't worn them.

I've never heard that the people of the Isle of Arran in Scitlanmd go in for that kind of garment.