Black or brown?
There is an interesting question. As TheScot points out, many people wear black shoes all of the time with their kilts. I do not know if it is because I am anti-authoritarian, or a southerner, or just cantankerous, but I almost NEVER wear black shoes. Black leather screams urban motorcycle and the Po-Lice and Army to me. I have plenty of respect for people associated with those things- I even HAVE a black leather jacket, but I am much more of a semi-rural brown wearing guy. I will do anything I can to wear brown shoes with my navy and grey (saxon) suits and I think black shoes with khakis and jeans look ridonculous. I tell you all of this as a preamble to what might otherwise seem like a silly question:
Do you wear black shoes regularly?
If you don't, then by all means, look for a brown sporran, or at least a black and brown one. As TheScot points out, many people will wear a brown sporran even with black shoes. I think a black one with brown shoes may be pushing it, though. My only other comment is, if you buy an inexpensive one, try to make it one without a chrome cantle. To my eye, the shiny cantle looks dressy and formal and, well, wrong if you aren't dressed up.
Why not take a few hours off and instead of watching a movie, see if you can't sew your own simple sporran. Make it brown, but dye one part of it ( the flap?) black. You'll have something that you made and you'll save money to put into it. And it will match everything.
Some take the high road and some take the low road. Who's in the gutter? MacLowlife
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