Day wear cantle

[ThistleDown]

Mike, if you don't have all of them let me know and I'll post what you are missing.

There is something more to be said in this thread -- perhaps. In his first response to the OP Artificer said that it is generally thought that brass is for day wear and silver for evenings. Cygnus later quoted McKinnon as saying that there is nothing wrong with silver during the day.

The best way to understand how we think about Highland dress in the Highlands today is to think "flashy".

We DON'T do flashy during the day. How we do the flash in the evening and the night-time ( ) is another subject, but during the daylight hours -- long in the Summer and shorter in the Winter -- we are much more subdued. Not much silver before 18 bells and what there is is limited to the kilt pin and an odd belt buckle. No silver sporran cantles, shoe buckles, buttons and the like.

Now that's not to say you shouldn't tart yourself up in feathers and silver and a' and a', it's just to say we tend, in Scotland, to snicker at some of that, so if you wish to wear as it is worn....

Rex