Quote Originally Posted by Shardz View Post
Howdy.

I recently bought a rather nice kilt (Gordon clan tartan) from Stillwater Kilts. I shirked buying a sporran until just a week ago, and it arrived yesterday.

Basically, I'm confused as to how I'm supposed to go about wearing it. I've got two chains with a short bit of a belt on one and a buckle + belt on the other. I can see how I attach them to each other, and how they attach to the sporran, but I'm confused about how it's supposed to attach to *me*. Do I feed it through the two loops for my belt on my kilt, through the two movable loops on my belt, or do I just let it sit on my hips (which will probably end poorly)? Also, do I put it under my belt so as to cover up the buckle bit?

I also have a leather strap, which I kinda figured out, but I have the same questions about where I'm supposed to attach it. (Also, when I do, the sporran's top kind of tilts forward, which might just be a function of the leather not being 'broken in', but I don't know if that's something bad I'm supposed to try to fix or not.)

You'll have to excuse what's probably a silly question, but I couldn't really find anything informative searching through these forums, or google in general.
The loops on the back of your kilt are actually for the sporran belt and not the other belt. Having said this using these loops prevents you from sliding the sporran over to your hip when answering nature's call. Now neither my waist belt or sporran belt go through loops, in fact i tend to omit these loops when I have my kilts made. Your hips will hold up your sporran, if you're still concerned you can always have the belt rest on your kilt straps. You will find that chains can rapidly wear out your kilt apron and belts are better. For a fancier look in leather consider a braided leather sporran belt from RKilts. Welcome to Xmarks, feel free to pop on over to post on the newby forum and introduce yourself.