Opinions pse: Besides the metal cantle, what else defines a "Dress" vs "Day" Sporran?

[Bruce Scott]

I'm bound to disagree. Not for all formal occasions but the right shade and style does work IMO.

2017 Aberfeldy Ball.jpg

The photo is a little small for my feeble eyes and I couldn't get it to enlarge. Is this the same sporran?

[figheadair]

The photo is a little small for my feeble eyes and I couldn't get it to enlarge. Is this the same sporran?

Yes it is.

[Manu]

Father Bill,

I, like you, just went through this conundrum recently. In my opinion, a brown leather sporran with metal cantle will serve you well for most day wear dressier occasions. It could work great with your red Sinclair. To me, a formal dress sporran starts at the fur and metal cantle together. Either of those separately, I consider day sporran but on the dressier side.

[revdpatience]

Father Bill:

I found myself in a very similar conundrum, and you can see the results of my thinking in this thread:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...64#post1362064

Essentially, I gave in to my lust (mea maxima culpa) for the same brown L&M "Duncan" Hunting Sporran for daywear, and then purchased an inexpensive gray fur dress sporran with a chrome cantle and chrome tassels.

I wear the hunting sporran with black or brown shoes for daytime events like Highland Games and for general knocking around. The gray fur sporran goes very nicely with my Lovat green Argyll jacket and waistcoat for late afternoon/dinner events, and that was part of my calculus.

However, the brown hunting sporran, to my mind, is not at all suitable for evening wear. My evening kit is all black and silver and my dress pumps are patent leather with grosgrain ribbon trim, so broguing doesn't enter into my particular equation. The variations in earlier posts in this thread -- black hunting sporran with chrome cantle -- might satisfy your evening wear need, but I'm convinced by the people who say that variation is more typical of pipe bands, so I decided to go with a more "civilian" dress sporran.

Doesn't help, I know, as I have probably just whetted your appetite for the Duncan sporran but that's how my thinking went.

Rodger

[Father Bill]

Well Rodger, I guess the love of that particular sporran may be the sin of the clergy.

[revdpatience]

I just can't escape the mental image of a WWII-era "padre" in black shirt with dog-collar and green tweed Argyll jacket (see my profile pic).

That leads to the "need" for brown accessories, and well, you know the rest ....

Well Rodger, I guess the love of that particular sporran may be the sin of the clergy.