PROJECT OPPORTUNITY: Alternative dress sporran hangers for big guys

[ForresterModern]

Jeff - before you commission beltless sporran hangers, have you tried to see what the effect of hanging a fully loaded sporran on your kilt would be? I'm thinking that a heavy belt distributes the weight around your hips more evenly, whereas hanging one off the apron would cause the apron to sag.

You could simulate your design by taking some stiff wire, say one of those flimsy shirt hangers you get from the dry cleaners, cut a length of it enough to fashion a hook by making a loop, flatten it, then fold the ends together to form parallel U's. Be careful to tape off the sharp ends together and mind any barbs you may find.

Keeping in mind that this is ONLY AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE (guys), now pass your existing hangers through the loops, and hook them over the waistband of your apron. Attach the sporran. Walk around for a while and see what the effect is. Granted, your design distributes the weight over the distance between the hangers, but you will be able to see what happens when you apply downward force to the front of the kilt.

Regards,
Rex.

Thanks Rex for the idea. I actually quite often (usually in dress situations) wear a kilt with braces to help hold up the whole kilt, so the weight of the sporran on the apron would be born by the braces fairly well. I have even considered some variety of chain or strap that could go around my braces to hold up the sporran, or even attaching buttons for the braces then designing some strap/chain to attach to the button to do the same job.

I came up with the money clip idea on a fluke when I was at a games and took my money clip out of my sporran, then the money out of the clip to pay for something. With too many things in my hands I without thinking clipped my money clip to the apron momentarily to keep from losing it and, voila', an idea arose.

I think the money clip idea, or possibly the braces hanger idea would work for those of us with the girth to not be able to use a sporran chain. They would only be used for formal events and other situations where a waistcoat was being worn, in which the wearing of braces of some sort to hold up the kilt would not be an issue at they would be hidden. The real issue is how to hold up the sporran in those situations without that dreaded bunching of the apron.

jeff :ootd: