Quote Originally Posted by Planopiper
Notice that Mr. Brown also wears a horsehair sporran. I believe I've seen at least one other portrait with him wearing a white horsehair sporran. We don't do that much now, but the precedent for wearing one with non-military dress is there.

He also wore a glengarry, which is unusual when it's not part of a uniform. He may have been in the military and kept it from the old days. Not many people can pull it off with non-uniform dress, though.
Interestingly, all the men in civilian clothes are wearing the horse hair sporrans in those pictures.

Normally I'm not a fan of the look, but that is usually because the person doing it has hodge podged together a "highlander outfit" with bits from a ren fair and the victorian period and the contemporary styles and has the sporran hung too low so it hangs below the bottom edge of the kilt :rolleyes:

The crispness of the entire outfit that Mr. Brown is wearing (and the others) makes the whole thing work to my eye. I still don't think I would try to pull it off but it is surprisingly decent looking.