Quote Originally Posted by bricekolob View Post
I don't know how many of you believe what is said in the book SO YOUR GOING TO WEAR THE KILT!, but in their it does state that brown is for day wear and black is for more fomal wear. With that in mind, I hate brown so I wear black all the time.
Rather than brown for day wear the general rule has been no brown for formal or evening wear and no brown for the city, viz. brown, if at all, for day wear. Brown shoes do not, I must add, match well to blue hose or dominantly blue tartans or tweeds. Shoes and sporrans should be also darker than the kilt and hose with the exception of white. Black shoes and sporrans, by contrast, can go well with dominantly brown tartans or tweeds. The standard sporran, for instance, of the Irish regiments for their brown "saffron" kilts is black patent leather (which is about the only leather suitable for evening).
I don't see the need to match shoes to sporran and the traditional style in the Scottish regiments has been to match brown day sporrans with black shoes. Important, however, is to match belt, should one wear one, to sporran.