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The sporran is the purse that is to hang around your waist and it is
to function as your pockets, a traditional kilt having no such ones.
You have three options:
1. The dress
sporran which is most decorative and to be used for very formal
purposes.
2. The semi dress sporran which
is very much an all-round type and to be used for day and evening
wear. The front is typically decorated with sealskin and here you
should take into consideration that sealskin is not regarded
appropriate everywhere in the world.
3. The day wear sporran which is
intended for informal situations. Functionality has priority and is the type of sporran I should
recommend for casual wear.
Most sporrans,
even day sporrans
come with tassels for decoration and when you walk along they inevitably make
you sound like a drummer.
To me this is annoying. It might be to you, too.
I'd say: Go for a plain sporran. Then you don't have
to cut off the tassels afterwards, leaving you with three perhaps visible holes on the front
of the sporran.
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Plain
traditional day leather sporran. |
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A leather
strap is better for your kilt than the metal chain that
always come with sporrans.
Leather straps being hard to obtain you might have to make
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Is the sporran a
must?
I think that to most
people kilt and sporran are strongly connected items.
However, Scotweb a leading providor of kilts and other Scottish
products says it this way on their homepage:
"Do I need to wear a sporran with the kilt?
Most people would still think that a Traditional 8 yard kilt
looks right only when worn with a sporran, quite apart from the practicality it lends to a garment without pockets in giving you somewhere to carry those coins and keys.
But a Casual Kilt is quite another story, and it is entirely a matter of style. If you wish it to resemble the traditional 8 yard garment, a sporran is probably still desirable. But if you are wearing your Casual Kilt as a versatile fashion garment, then how you accessorise is a purely personal style statement. It’s cool either way!"
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Do as you like. I
think a kilt looks better with a sporran, however going
without one adds to comfort and sometimes I therefore leave it at home.
With modern kilts having pockets I never wear a sporran.
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A very versatile
casual sporran from Stillwater (USA). Being made of nylon
you hardly hear the tassels.
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The casual kilt is in Royal Stewart tartan and is shown worn with and without a sporran |
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