Why...Oh Why?????

[ABG0819]

I bought a new pair of shoes today...is it strange that my first thought upon completion of the sale I realized that now I need a new sporran...the shoes are brown and all of my sporrans are black. Does any one else have these thoughts.

[McMurdo]

While a brown sporran would be nice with those shoes, I see nothing wrong with wearing a black sporran with brown shoes. In this example I think it work as the shoes are suede.

[MNlad]

Happens all the time, be it shoes, bonnet, sporran or kilt. It's the "I need something to go with this" syndrome.

[Father Bill]

Happens all the time, be it shoes, bonnet, sporran or kilt. It's the "I need something to go with this" syndrome.

True. Ask the ladies about that!

[Creag]

You can wear a black belt and sporran with those shoes - no problem. Those look comfy. I dig desert boots.

[t_challa]

I have two sporrans that are black and currently wear a pair of brown boots when kilted. Matching the sporran to footwear has never been a consideration.

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I am definitely not traditional when wearing my kilt (as you can see), but from the general jist I gathered from reading posts on various threads on XMTS, not matching is actually the best thing. However, it is all down to personal style choice.

[DyerStraits]

I generally match my sporran and shoes colors, but as I've said before, once you've learned and mastered the rules, that's when you can start breaking them, and I do break this one, especially with casual kilted day wear.

[TheOfficialBren]

I pick shoes and sporran for the level of formality. Colour isn't a consideration (obviously black if it's that sort of affair) for daywear, usually. In fact, I wore my black sporran with brown boots the last time I "kilted."

I've worn a brown sporran with black shoes, too.

...And brown with brown and black with black.

As I seldom attend black tie events and white tie events literally do not exist in my neck of the woods (I wish they did, thou, since I prefer formality over informality) I don't own a hair, silver cantled, or furry sporran...yet.

[Pleater]

Ah - beware beware - recently the weather has been very warm, so I decided that I would once again wear a - well - OK it's a sporran, but I wear it on my left hip, and I used to have a matching sporran and a quiver to the right side for carrying drumsticks and a recorder for when I was doing drumming and morris things. That is morris dancing - traditional English stuff...

So I looked for a suitable bag, found a blue one, so I made a few alterations - turned the bow into an extra pocket with fastener, great - so then I found the old blue kilt and remade it - to wear with the new blue sporran - looked out a few blue tee shirts and then thought that a blue hat might be a good idea, so I am working on that now.

One thing just seems to lead to another....

Anne the Pleater :ootd: