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2nd January 06, 10:56 AM
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2nd January 06, 12:50 PM
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I have to say it looks best with pipers/other uniforms as well.
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2nd January 06, 02:47 PM
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I always felt it looked silly on anyone other than a piper.
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2nd January 06, 05:20 PM
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These are indeed known as Pipers' Sporrans - and only pipers in full dress uniform should wear them. They are an abomination with 'civvies'!
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2nd January 06, 07:39 PM
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Come on guys...be honest. Tell me how you really feel.
Obviously hair sporrans don't have a very high rating here, at least for civilian wear. Where did they go wrong? From the period illustrations I've seen they were a popular type of sporran for civilian wear. Maybe not for the working class, but at least for the well-to-do, gentlemen sorts. Our own Matt Newsome has a picture of himself, on his website, wearing one. If anyone can elaborate on them and their history, please do. I would appriciate it.
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2nd January 06, 08:34 PM
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I have nothing against them. They do look nice and all. However on a personal note, I do not see myself wearing one, because I am not a piper or in a military unit.
Glen McGuire
A Life Lived in Fear, Is a Life Half Lived.
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2nd January 06, 10:23 PM
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 Originally Posted by HeathBar
Obviously hair sporrans don't have a very high rating here, at least for civilian wear. Where did they go wrong? From the period illustrations I've seen they were a popular type of sporran for civilian wear.
One should be careful using the MacIan prints or other period Victorian illustrations of highland dress as models for what's proper. Those drawings are fanciful at best and while I don't doubt that the occasional highland gentleman strapped on broadsword, dirk, pistols, powder horn, plaid and yes, hair sporran for a formal event...consider that none of of those other acoutrements have survived in any commonly used form to today.
Just my 0.02.
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3rd January 06, 12:23 AM
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Owl of Oban is quite right, people would dress up in the imagined attire of the
'wild untamed highlander', and so be pictured.
When in fact they'd probably wear trews or even the normal attire of the English upper classes: of which they saw themselves as a part.
The point being that the kilt is practical wear-imagine wearing a fancy hairy sporran on the hill all day, and in all weathers?
To get the point, look at the miltary portraits of the second part of the 19thC-all the finery: and then look at actual photographs of the time.
James
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