Brass cantle for formal sporran?

[FossilHunter]

Perhaps define first what you mean by 'dress' and 'formal'?

Quite simply; the fur fronted, metal cantled sporrans typically worn with black tie.



I often see them marketed as dress sporrans or formal sporrans but except for pipe bad style sporrans, I don’t see brass cantled examples very often but I do occasionally see them on used or vintage fur fronted seal skin sporrans.

So basically I’m asking after a sporran similar to he photo but with a brass cantle rather than “silver”. Would that be considered appropriate for black tie or would it be violating one of those unwritten sartorial rules we Americans have so much trouble with?

I recall an older thread about brass buttons and one of the Scots said something about looking like a footman.