Accessories: same color?

[Jock Scot]

Well here I am, late again. Actually I have been keeping an eye on this thread, but thought you chaps were doing pretty well without me.

This matching thing that many seem to agonise so much about is, I am sure, just a fact that most of the "New World" are having to start with new kit. Whilst in the "Old World" we make do with Dad's kilt, great grandfather's brown sporran and silver kilt pin, uncle Jim's black kilt belt, cousin Jack's gold watch and chain and so on. So inevitably when we turn out we are never likely to have anything that matches. A good dollop of necessity, practicality, common sense and experience sees to that human frailty of vanity and thus we Scots don't fuss about matching things and somehow it works and works well.

Most of you chaps in the "New World" don't have that ancestral backup, so you have the mindset of NEW, so when you go out and buy things it is obvious that you want things to match. Just like, I suspect, my ancestors did when they started out on the kilt trail umpteen decades ago. This is where the "Old and New Worlds" struggle to understand where each other are coming from and I don't just mean on kilt matters either. Does it matter really? Well on matters of the kilt. Not one jot.

For the record, some of you might have noticed that I wear black(polished) brogues, black leather sporran and on occasion a black leather kilt belt with gold watch and chain, silver kilt pin and clan badge. That is not a conscious thing on my part, apart from I like black brogues, the rest is just what I happen to have.