Correct me if I'm wrong, Jock, but the impression I got during various visits to Scotland was that very few Scots own kilts, but it's common for Scots to wear hired kilts to weddings.
Several homes I visted had wedding photos displayed and usually the men were in kilts. I was told that the kilts were hired.
A beautiful sgian there, Jock!
As far as sgian styles, there have long been staghorn sginean for Day Dress and carved black wood sginean with silver fitments for Evening Dress.
Officers and pipers in the army wore black sginean with silver or gilt fitments.
Nowadays, here in the USA, it has become problematic wearing sginean because so many places ban weapons of any sort, and many places have metal detectors. The Pipe Band I play in has banned them.
Last edited by OC Richard; 10th August 19 at 05:19 AM.
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