Let's talk full dress sporrans

[Nathan]

Here is where I step delicately with my wording. Notwithstanding the enthusiastic verbiage of my previous post, I did not mean to imply that they are making a "big comeback". But since a few years ago, when we last had the big kerfuffle about hair sporrans for daywear, I have seen a number of random examples from the Highlands of men wearing hair sporrans during the day. Trying to find them at this point would be difficult, since I haven't exactly been keeping notes on where they were or anything. And I'm sure the usual suspects would jump in to say that those are just examples of eccentric Scots who do not represent the whole of traditional Highland wear, or offer some other dismissive explanation as to why it's just wrong, wrong, wrong. They'd probably be correct, in many ways. It is not really a common thing, and may indeed still draw the dreaded raised eyebrow from modern-traditional Highlanders. But one does occasionally see a Highlander wearing a hair sporran during the day, and I seem to think it has become slightly more common (or less rare, as it were) in the last few years.

Of course, examples of hair sporrans for civilian evening attire are numerous. It appears that this is the one commonly accepted civilian use of a hair sporran in the Highlands, as Kyle's photos show.

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't really talking about day wear though given the nature of the thread. Are there those that hold it's inappropriate for civilian evening wear also?

Incidentally Tobus, do you have a Texan accent? If so, I'll start adding it mentally when I read your posts. I already add a posh British accent in my head when I'm reading Jock and Phil, where rightly or wrongly, I read Fitz and Neloon with various brogues. Some Texans sound Texan, others have a more non-regional diction. It's a bit off topic but I'm curious...