My take is that fur is a bit of bother. Mittens for dog mushing local to me are two layers of beaver fur, hairy on the inside, hairy on the outside, and elbow length. $200 and up.

I do have a few pieces for when the weather is really cold (even by Alaska standards) but they were expensive, and I am gentle with them.

The point, for me, is that when a hair (or hairs) come out, it doesn't grow back. A plain leather cowhide sporran can get beat on over the years and look better. A hair on piece is just going to deteriorate.

I am working with one of our sporran makers for a fur on sporran, it isn't going to be cheap, and I am going to take care of it. It will be evocative of traditional horsehair, it will have a pewter cantle and I will likely only wear it in the evening.

If you got the dough, or horses and a workbench, go for it. I can't afford to replace a sporran that nice as fast as I would wear it out on day wear duty.

I also agree with the concept of "like wearing a PC to the grocery store." How are you going to top that after 6PM?

I really like the economy of full mask sporrans, but one of my daughters has a problem with it, so I can't go there. I have also toyed with the idea of bringing in some of that long curly haired goat hide, Tibetan I think. Relatively less expensive than horsehair or fox fur, evocative of horsehair but easier to drive a car, still some room to step up the game for evening wear. Mongolian sheep? I forget, there was a recent thread about one.